| Introduction | |
| America as a New World | p. 1 |
| How America Was Discovered (c. 1735-1815) | p. 3 |
| The Tempest (1611) | p. 7 |
| A Model of Christian Charity (1630) | p. 12 |
| Engel v. Vitale (1962) | p. 19 |
| Letter III from an American Farmer (1782) | p. 23 |
| To the United States (1827) | p. 33 |
| Paddy's Lament (ca. 1865) | p. 35 |
| The Spirit of Capitalism (1904) | p. 38 |
| On Being an American (1922) | p. 50 |
| America as an Independent Nation | p. 61 |
| Declaration of Independence (1776) | p. 63 |
| Declaration of Sentiments (1848) | p. 70 |
| Independence Day Speech (1854) | p. 77 |
| The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) | p. 83 |
| Vietnam's Declaration of Independence (1945) | p. 99 |
| Independence Day (1993) | p. 103 |
| What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) | p. 105 |
| America as a Place to Belong | p. 125 |
| Americanism and the Foreign-Born (1915) | p. 127 |
| Objections Answered (1913) | p. 131 |
| Ain't I a Woman? (1851) | p. 143 |
| Trans-National America (1916) | p. 146 |
| Americanism (1919) | p. 163 |
| Century Readings (1919) | p. 171 |
| The One-Hundred Percent American (1937) | p. 174 |
| National Brotherhood Week (1965) | p. 178 |
| America (1953) | p. 181 |
| This Land Is Your Land (1940) | p. 183 |
| America as a Land of the Free | p. 185 |
| Gettysburg Address (1863) | p. 187 |
| The American System (1928) | p. 191 |
| The Four Freedoms (1941) | p. 199 |
| Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) | p. 206 |
| Puerto Ricans (1961) | p. 218 |
| Wrestling with the Hard One (1994) | p. 222 |
| POPism (1975) | p. 228 |
| An Okie from Muskogee (1969) | p. 235 |
| Wasteland of the Free (1996) | p. 237 |
| Of Our Spiritual Strivings (1903) | p. 240 |
| America as an Empire | p. 249 |
| The Utility of the Union (1787) | p. 250 |
| The Monroe Doctrine (1823) | p. 256 |
| The European Colonizations of America (1855) | p. 259 |
| The White Man's Burden (1899) | p. 266 |
| Cast Away Illusions, Prepare for Struggle (1949) | p. 269 |
| U.S. and Mexican Pastimes (1946) | p. 274 |
| Ugly American Sightings (2000) | p. 277 |
| Letter to Americans (1986) | p. 293 |
| America as a Culture | p. 299 |
| The American Scholar (1837) | p. 301 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transcendental Critic (1927) | p. 319 |
| Factors in America Literary History (1925) | p. 330 |
| Middletown Faces Both Ways (1937) | p. 340 |
| Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate (1992) | p. 353 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading on the Roots of American Studies | p. 367 |
| Credits for Selections, Citations, and Visuals | p. 371 |
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