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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Series Editor's Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Source Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| War, Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism | |
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| Secretary of State, John Hay, Open Door Notes, 1899-1900 | |
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| President William McKinley, Account of his Decision to Occupy the Philippines, 1898 | |
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| The Platt Amendment, 1902 | |
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| Jane Addams, Critique of American Militarism, 1902 | |
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| President Theodore Roosevelt, "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 | |
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| The Great War and its Aftermath | |
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| George M. Cohan, "Over There," 1917 | |
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| President Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Address, 1918 | |
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| Senator Robert LaFollette, Opposition to President Wilson's War Message, 1917 | |
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| W. E. B. Dubois, Comments on the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles, and the Politics of Race, 1918 | |
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| Charles Lindbergh, Account of the First Solo Nonstop Airplane Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean, 1927 | |
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| The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 | |
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| The Great Depression, Fascist Fears, and Social Change in America | |
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| President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933 | |
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| Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Meeting with Adolf Hitler, 1933 | |
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| Father Charles Coughlin, Radio attack on "Internationalism," 1931 | |
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| Charles Lindbergh, Speech to an America First Committee Meeting, 1941 | |
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| The Atlantic Charter, 1941 | |
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| The Second World War | |
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| Lawrence T. Kagawa, the Internment of Japanese-Americans, 1942 | |
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| President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin at the Tehran Conference, 1943 | |
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| Dwight Eisenhower, the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps, 1945 | |
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| President Harry Truman, Diary Entries on the Potsdam Conference and his Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan, 1945 | |
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| The Atomic Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki, 1945 | |
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| The Early Cold War | |
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| George F. Kennan, "Long Telegram" on the Soviet Union, 1946 | |
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| The Truman Doctrine, 1947 | |
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| Assistant Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, the "Loss" of China, 1950 | |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950 | |
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| NSC 68, 1950 | |
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| President Dwight Eisenhower, the "Falling Domino" Theory in Indochina, 1954 | |
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| Rebellions Against the Cold War | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr., "The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousness," 1960 | |
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| "Spy vs. Spy," 1961 | |
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| SANE, Public Petition, 1961 | |
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| Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement, 1962 | |
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| Women Strike for Peace, "What Every Woman Knows," 1962 | |
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| "Dr. Strangelove," 1964 | |
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| President Lyndon Johnson, "Peace Without Conquest," 1965 | |
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| Phil Ochs, "I ain't marchin' anymore," 1965 | |
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| Christian Appy, Oral Histories from the Vietnam War | |
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| My Lai Massacre, 1968 | |
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| D�tente, Human Rights, and the Continuation of the Cold War | |
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| President Richard Nixon, "Opening" to China, 1972 | |
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| Agreement on Basic Principles between the United States and the Soviet Union, 1972 | |
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| American Complicity in Chilean Repression, 1973 | |
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| The Helsinki Final Act, 1975 | |
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| President Jimmy Carter, Address at the University of Notre Dame, 1977 | |
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| President Ronald Reagan, "Evil Empire" Speech, 1983 | |
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| The End of the Cold War | |
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| President Ronald Reagan, Speech and Question-and-Answer Session at Moscow State University, 1988 | |
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| The New York Times, Mikhail Gorbachev's Heroic Reception in the United States, 1988 | |
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| The New York Times, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989 | |
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| President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev, the End of the Cold War, 1989 | |
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| After the Cold War | |
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| President George H. W. Bush, the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, 1990 | |
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| Deputy Secretary of Defense, John Deutch, Genocide in Rwanda, 1994 | |
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| President Bill Clinton, the Kosovo Crisis, 1999 | |
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| The War on Terror | |
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| The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 | |
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| The New York Times, the Public Horror of September 11, 2001 | |
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| President George W. Bush, the Bush Doctrine, 2002 | |
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| George Packer, the Iraq War, 2005 | |
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| Torture at Abu Ghraib Prison, 2004 | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |