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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865-1877 | |
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| The Problems of Peace | |
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| Freedmen Define Freedom | |
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| The Freedmen's Bureau | |
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| Johnson: The Tailor President | |
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| Presidential Reconstruction | |
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| The Baleful Black Codes | |
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| Congressional Reconstruction | |
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| Johnson Clashes with Congress | |
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| Swinging 'round the Circle with Johnson | |
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| Republican Principles and Programs | |
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| Reconstruction by the Sword | |
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| No Women Voters | |
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| The Realities of Radical Reconstruction in the South | |
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| The Ku Klux Klan | |
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| Johnson Walks the Impeachment Plank | |
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| A Not-Guilty Verdict for Johnson | |
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| The Purchase of Alaska | |
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| The Heritage of Reconstruction | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869-1896 | |
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| The "Bloody Shirt" Elects Grant | |
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| The Era of Good Stealings | |
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| A Carnival of Corruption | |
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| The Liberal Republican Revolt of 1872 | |
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| Depression, Deflation, and Inflation | |
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| Pallid Politics in the Gilded Age | |
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| The Hayes-Tilden Standoff, 1876 | |
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| The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction | |
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| The Birth of Jim Crow, in the Post-Reconstruction South | |
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| Class Conflicts and Ethnic Clashes | |
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| Garfield and Arthur | |
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| The Blaine-Cleveland Mudslingers of 1884 | |
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| "Old Grover" Takes Over | |
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| Cleveland Battles for a Lower Tariff | |
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| The Billion-Dollar Congress | |
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| The Drumbeat of Discontent | |
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| Cleveland and Depression | |
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| Cleveland Breeds a Backlash | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| Industry Comes of Age 1865-1900 | |
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| The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron Horse | |
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| Spanning the Continent with Rails | |
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| Binding the Country with Railroad Ties | |
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| Railroad Consolidation and Mechanization | |
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| Revolution by Railways | |
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| Wrongdoing in Railroading | |
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| Government Bridles the Iron Horse | |
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| Miracles of Mechanization | |
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| The Trust Titan Emerges | |
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| The Supremacy of Steel | |
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| Carnegie and Other Sultans of Steel | |
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| Rockefeller Grows an American Beauty Rose | |
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| The Gospel of Wealth | |
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| Government Tackles the Trust Evil | |
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| The South in the Age of Industry | |
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| The Impact of the New Industrial Revolution on America | |
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| In Unions There Is Strength | |
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| Labor Limps Along | |
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| Unhorsing the Knights of Labor | |
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| The AF of L to the Fore | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| America Moves to the City 1865-1900 | |
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| The Urban Frontier | |
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| The New Immigration | |
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| Southern Europe Uprooted | |
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| Reactions to the New Immigration | |
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| Narrowing the Welcome Mat | |
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| Churches Confront the Urban Challenge | |
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| Darwin Disrupts the Churches | |
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| The Lust for Learning | |
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| Booker T. Washington and Education for Black People | |
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| The Hallowed Halls of Ivy | |
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| The March of the Mind | |
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| The Appeal of the Press | |
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| Apostles of Reform | |
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| The New Morality | |
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| Families and Women in the City | |
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| Prohibiting Alcohol and Promoting Reform | |
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| Postwar Popular Fiction | |
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| Literary Landmarks | |
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| Artistic Triumphs | |
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| The Business of Amusement | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution 1865-1896 | |
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| The Clash of Cultures on the Plains | |
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| Receding Native Population | |
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| Bellowing Herds of Bison | |
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| The End of the Trail | |
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| Mining: From Dishpan to Ore Breaker | |
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| Beef Bonanzas and the Long Drive | |
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| The Farmers' Frontier | |
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| The Far West Comes of Age | |
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| The Fading Frontier | |
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| The Farm Becomes a Factory | |
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| Deflation Dooms the Debtor | |
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| Thinking Globally: The Great Frontier | |
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| Unhappy Farmers | |
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| The Farmers Take Their Stand | |
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| Prelude to Populism | |
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| Coxey's Army and the Pullman Strike | |
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| Golden McKinley and Silver Bryan | |
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| Class Conflict: Plowholders Versus Bondholders | |
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| Republican Stand-Pattism Enthroned | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| Empire and Expansion 1890-1909 | |
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| America Turns Outward | |
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| Spurning the Hawaiian Pear | |
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| Cubans Rise in Revolt | |
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| Dewey's May Day Victory at Manila | |
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| The Confused Invasion of Cuba | |
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| America's Course (Curse?) of Empire | |
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| Perplexities in Puerto Rico and Cuba | |
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| New Horizons in Two Hemispheres | |
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| "Little Brown Brothers" in the Philippines | |
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| Hinging the Open Door in China | |
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| Imperialism or Bryanism in 1900? | |
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| TR: Brandisher of the Big Stick | |
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| Building the Panama Canal | |
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| TR's Perversion of Monroe's Doctrine | |
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| Roosevelt on the World Stage | |
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| Japanese Laborers in California | |
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| Thinking Globally: The Age of Empire | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901-1912 | |
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| Progressive Roots | |
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| Raking Muck with the Muckrakers | |
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| Political Progressivism | |
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| Thinking Globally: "Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?" | |
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| Progressivism in the Cities and States | |
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| Progressive Women | |
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| TR's Square Deal for Labor | |
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| TR Corrals the Corporations | |
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| Caring for the Consumer | |
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| Earth Control | |
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| The "Roosevelt Panic" of 1907 | |
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| The Rough Rider Thunders Out | |
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| Taft: A Round Peg in a Square Hole | |
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| The Dollar Goes Abroad as a Diplomat | |
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| Taft the Trustbuster | |
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| Taft Splits the Republican Party | |
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| The Taft-Roosevelt Rupture | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad 1912-1916 | |
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| The "Bull Moose" Campaign of 1912 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson: A Minority President | |
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| Wilson: The Idealist in Politics | |
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| Wilson Tackles the Tariff | |
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| Wilson Battles the Bankers | |
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| The President Tames the Trusts | |
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| Wilsonian Progressivism at High Tide | |
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| New Directions in Foreign Policy | |
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| Moralistic Diplomacy in Mexico | |
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| Thunder across the Sea | |
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| A Precarious Neutrality | |
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| America Earns Blood Money | |
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| Wilson Wins Reelection in 1916 | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| The War to End War 1917-1918 | |
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| War by Act of Germany | |
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| Wilsonian Idealism Enthroned | |
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| Wilson's Fourteen Potent Points | |
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| Creel Manipulates Minds | |
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| Enforcing Loyalty and Stifling Dissent | |
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| The Nation's Factories Go to War | |
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| Workers in Wartime | |
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| Suffering until Suffrage | |
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| Forging a War Economy | |
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| Making Plowboys into Doughboys | |
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| Fighting in France-Belatedly | |
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| America Helps Hammer the "Hun" | |
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| The Fourteen Points Disarm Germany | |
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| Wilson Steps Down from Olympus | |
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| An Idealist Amid the Imperialists | |
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| Hammering Out the Treaty | |
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| The Peace Treaty That Bred a New War | |
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| The Domestic Parade of Prejudice | |
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| Wilson's Tour and Collapse (1919) | |
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| Defeat through Deadlock | |
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| The "Solemn Referendum" of 1920 | |
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| The Betrayal of Great Expectations | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" 1919-1929 | |
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| Seeing Red | |
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| Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK | |
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| Stemming the Foreign Flood | |
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| The Prohibition "Experiment" | |
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| The Golden Age of Gangsterism | |
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| Monkey Business in Tennessee | |
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| The Mass-Consumption Economy | |
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| Putting America on Rubber Tires | |
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| The Advent of the Gasoline Age | |
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| Humans Develop Wings | |
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| The Radio Revolution | |
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| Hollywood's Filmland Fantasies | |
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| The Dynamic Decade | |
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| Cultural Liberation | |
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| Thinking Globally: Modernism | |
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| Wall Street's Big Bull Market | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920-1932 | |
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| The Republican "Old Guard" Returns | |
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| GOP Reaction at the Throttle | |
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| The Aftermath of War | |
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| America Seeks Benefits without Burdens | |
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| Hiking the Tariff Higher | |
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| The Stench of Scandal | |
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| "Silent Cal" Coolidge | |
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| Frustrated Farmers | |
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| A Three-Way Race for the White House in 1924 | |
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| Foreign-Policy Flounderings | |
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| Unraveling the Debt Knot | |
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| The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, 1928 | |
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| President Hoover's First Moves | |
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| The Great Crash Ends the Golden Twenties | |
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| Hooked on the Horn of Plenty | |
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| Rugged Times for Rugged Individualists | |
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| Hoover Battles the Great Depression | |
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| Routing the Bonus Army in Washington | |
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| Japanese Militarists Attack China | |
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| Hoover Pioneers the Good Neighbor Policy | |
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| Chronology | |
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| To Learn More | |
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| The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933-1939 | |
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| FDR: Politician in a Wheelchair | |
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| Presidential Hopefuls of 1932 | |
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| Hoover's Humiliation in 1932 | |
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| FDR and the Three R's: Relief, Recovery, Reform | |
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| Roosevelt Manages the Money | |
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| Creating Jobs for the Jobless | |
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| A Day for Every Demagogue | |
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| New Visibility for Women | |
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| Helping Industry and Labor | |
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| Paying Farmers Not to Farm | |
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| Dust Bowls and Black Blizzards | |
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| Battling Bankers and Big Business | |