Title		Details
Cahokia		Chapter:	1
		Date:	c. 1200
		Author:	Lloyd K. Townsend
		Description:	Monk's Mound
		Type:	Painting
Indians of New Netherlands Account for the Creation		Chapter:	1
		Date:	c. 1650s
		Author:	Indians of New Netherlands
		Description:	An Indian Creation Story
		Type:	Text
English Trade with Indians		Chapter:	2
		Date:	1634
		Author:	Theodor de Bry
		Description:	A trade encounter between the Indians and the English
		Type:	Drawing
Land Division in New Orleans		Chapter:	2-4
		Date:	c. 1720
		Author:	unknown
		Description:	The "long lot" system
		Type:	Map
The Wonders of the Invisible World		Chapter:	3
		Date:	1693
		Author:	Cotton Mather
		Description:	Public Exhortation
		Type:	Text
Indentured Servitude in the Chesapeake		Chapter:	3, 4
		Date:	1640
		Author:	Virginia General Court
		Description:	Court Judgement
		Type:	Text
Virginia Gentleman Weighs "a Frail Woman's" Class		Chapter:	4
		Date:	c. 1730
		Author:	William Byrd, II
		Description:	A response to the elopement of an upper-class woman with an overseer
		Type:	Text
Early Evidence of Sexual Tensions Within Slavery		Chapter:	4
		Date:	1681
		Author:	unknown
		Description:	A white woman testifies of sexual assualt by a mulatto man
		Type:	Text
Charleston, SC Sons of Liberty		Chapter:	5
		Date:	1766
		Author:	Anonymous
		Description:	Patriot List
		Type:	Text
A Profile of Loyalist Claims		Chapter:	6, 7
		Date:	1780
		Author:	Wallace Brown
		Description:	Claimant List
		Type:	Text
The Copley Family		Chapter:	7
		Date:	1776-1777
		Author:	John Singleton Copley
		Description:	Family Portrait
		Type:	Painting
Washington's Farewell Address		Chapter:	7, 8
		Date:	1796
		Author:	George Washington
		Description:	Our first President cautions the young nation
		Type:	Text
Lewis & Clark: A Scientific Interest...		Chapter:	8
		Date:	1805
		Author:	Meriweather Lewis
		Description:	Journal Entry
		Type:	Illustration/Text
Lewis & Clark: A Modern View		Chapter:	8
		Date:	1998
		Author:	John Klossner
		Description:	Cartoon
		Type:	Illustration
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin		Chapter:	9, 11
		Date:	1794
		Author:	Houghton Mifflin Company
		Description:	Animation of the operation of a cotton gin
		Type:	Animation
Veto of the Bank of the United States		Chapter:	10
		Date:	1832
		Author:	Andrew Jackson
		Description:	Speech
		Type:	Text
Proprietors of the Charles River Bridge vs.		Chapter:	10
		Date:	1837
		Author:	Roger B. Taney
		Description:	Supreme Court decision on monopolies
		Type:	Text
Removal of the Eastern Indians		Chapter:	10
		Date:	1840
		Author:
		Description:	Forced Migration Routes
		Type:	Map
Rules for Husbands and Wives		Chapter:	11, 12
		Date:	1830
		Author:	Mathew Carey
		Description:	Views on the Role of Women
		Type:	Text
Domestic Economy		Chapter:	12
		Date:	1841
		Author:	Catherine E. Beecher
		Description:	Essay
		Type:	Text
Black Potential and the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin		Chapter:	12, 14
		Date:	1853
		Author:	Harriet Beecher Stowe
		Description:	Author's defense of the factual basis of her novel
		Type:	Text
Manifest Destiny		Chapter:	13
		Date:	1845
		Author:	John L. Sullivan
		Description:	The origins
		Type:	Text
South Carolina Defines the Causes of Secession		Chapter:	14
		Date:	1860
		Author:	unknown
		Description:	South Carolina's reasons for Secession
		Type:	Text
Confederate Dead at Gettysburg		Chapter:	15
		Date:	1863
		Author:	Alexander Gardner et al.
		Description:	Battle Aftermath
		Type:	Photograph
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Assesses the Black Soldier		Chapter:	15, 16
		Date:	1870
		Author:	Thomas Wentworth Higginson
		Description:	Account of a black Civil War regiment by their commander
		Type:	Text
Louisiana Black Code		Chapter:	16
		Date:	1865
		Author:	Louisiana
		Description:	Reconstruction-era "black codes" restrict blacks' rights in the South
		Type:	Text
Southern Skepticism of the Freedmen's Bureau		Chapter:	16
		Date:	1866
		Author:	James D. B. De Bow
		Description:	A leading Southern writer's comments
		Type:	Text
Strike of 1877		Chapter:	16, 17
		Date:	1877
		Author:	Allan Pinkerton
		Description:	"Pinkerton-men" as strikebreakers
		Type:	Text
American Woman's Home		Chapter:	16, 17
		Date:	1869
		Author:	Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
		Description:	Patternbook Perspective Drawing & Floor-plan
		Type:	Illustration
Political Symbols		Chapter:	17
		Date:	1874
		Author:	Thomas Nast
		Description:	Political Cartoon
		Type:	Illustration
How the Other Half Lives		Chapter:	18
		Date:	1890
		Author:	Jacob Riis
		Description:	Life of the poor in the city
		Type:	Text
Montana v. Rehberg		Chapter:	18
		Date:	1885
		Author:	Anonymous
		Description:	Court Transcript
		Type:	Text
Whitman Salutes the Indo-Hispanic Conrtibution to America		Chapter:	19
		Date:	1883
		Author:	Walt Whitman
		Description:	Indian & Hispanic role in the growth of the U.S.
		Type:	Text
The Significance of the Frontier in American History		Chapter:	19
		Date:	1893
		Author:	Frederick Jackson Turner
		Description:	Importance of the frontier in shaping American character
		Type:	Text
Populist Party Platform		Chapter:	20
		Date:	1892
		Author:	Populist Party
		Description:	New political party calls for radical changes
		Type:	Text
Mahan Defines Security in Terms of Sea Power		Chapter:	20
		Date:	1897
		Author:	Alfred Thayer Mahan
		Description:	Military/Geo-Political Theory
		Type:	Text
Consumerism		Chapter:	20, 23
		Date:	1890-1926
		Author:
		Description:	Personal & Business Income
		Type:	Table
Booker T. Washington and Others		Chapter:	21
		Date:	1903
		Author:	W. E. B. Du Bois
		Description:	Criticism of Washington's views
		Type:	Text
Chinese in San Francisco		Chapter:	21
		Date:	1885
		Author:	San Francisco Board of Supervisors
		Description:	Living conditions in Chinatown
		Type:	Text
Attack on the Meatpackers		Chapter:	21
		Date:	1906
		Author:	Upton Sinclair
		Description:	"Muckraker's" indictment
		Type:	Text
The Visual Image of the Enemy		Chapter:	22
		Date:	1913
		Author:
		Description:	Political Cartoon
		Type:	Illustration
Kellogg-Briand Pact		Chapter:	22, 23
		Date:	1928
		Author:	U.S. Government
		Description:	Multilateral treaty for world peace
		Type:	Text
American Neutrality Policy		Chapter:	23
		Date:	1914
		Author:	Woodrow Wilson
		Description:	Statement of WWI neutrality in Europe
		Type:	Text
Susan LaFollette on Marriage and Divorce		Chapter:	23
		Date:	1929
		Author:	Susan LaFollette
		Description:	A view of divorce in the 1920s
		Type:	Text
Depression and the New Deal		Chapter:	24
		Date:	1929-1942
		Author:
		Description:	Unemployment Figures
		Type:	Chart
Oct. 29, Dies Irae		Chapter:	24
		Date:	1929
		Author:	James N. Rosenberg
		Description:	Events of October 29, 1929
		Type:	Political Cartoon
Broke—Baby Sick—Car Trouble		Chapter:	24, 25
		Date:	1937
		Author:	Dorothea Lange
		Description:	A family moving west
		Type:	Photograph
World War II Homefront		Chapter:	25
		Date:	1942
		Author:
		Description:	Internal Migration
		Type:	Map
Effects of the Atomic Bomb		Chapter:	25, 26
		Date:	1945
		Author:	The United States Bombing Survey
		Description:	Government Report
		Type:	Text
Truman Doctrine		Chapter:	26
		Date:	1947
		Author:	Harry S. Truman
		Description:	A call to action
		Type:	Text
Father Knows Best		Chapter:	27, 28
		Date:	1954
		Author:	Anonymous
		Description:	Sitcom Still
		Type:	Photograph
Watts Riots		Chapter:	28
		Date:	1965
		Author:	California Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots
		Description:	Compilation of L.A. police records
		Type:	Text
Voting Literacy Test		Chapter:	28
		Date:	1965
		Author:	Anonymous
		Description:	State Voting Test
		Type:	Text
John Kerry Questions a War Gone Wrong		Chapter:	28, 29
		Date:	1971
		Author:	U.S. Government
		Description:	Congressional hearing on Vietnam
		Type:	Text
Support for the Contras		Chapter:	30
		Date:	1984
		Author:	Ronald Reagan
		Description:	U.S. involvement in Nicaragua
		Type:	Text
Challenger: An Accident Rooted in History...		Chapter:	30
		Date:	1986
		Author:	Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
		Description:	Pictograph of O-ring Damage
		Type:	Chart
Country of Origin and Year of Entry into the U.S.		Chapter:	31
		Date:	1997
		Author:	U.S. Census Bureau
		Description:	Foreign-born citizenship status
		Type:	Table
Events in Waco: House Judiciary Committee Investigation		Chapter:	31
		Date:	1993
		Author:	Janet Reno
		Description:	Attorney General's Testimony
		Type:	Text