Vol. 1. To 1877. Colonial America: The moral and legal justifications for dispossessing the Indians / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- The beginnings of slavery in North America / Winthrop D. Jordan -- The economic and social influence of the indentured servant / Marcus W. Jernegan -- Popular uprisings and civil authority in eighteenth-century America / Pauline Maier -- The new nation: Enforcement of the Alien and Sedition Acts / James Morton Smith -- Tecumseh, the greatest Indian / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- Indian removal and land allotment: The civilized tribes and Jacksonian justice / Mary E. Young. The Ante-Bellum North and South: Religious conflict in Ante-Bellum Boston / Oscar Handlin -- The cult of true womanhood: 1820-1860 -- Through the prism of folklore: The black ethos in slavery / Sterling Stuckey -- Westward expansion: The Mormon struggle for autonomy / Norman F. Furniss -- Anti-Chinese sentiment in California / Elmer C. Sandmeyer -- The birth and death of the Plains Indians / Peter Farb
Vol. 2. Since 1865. The gilded age: Industrial workers struggle for power / Herbert G. Guttman -- Black and poor whites in the South / C. Vann Woodward -- Anarchism and the assassination of McKinley / Sidney Fine -- The early twentieth-century: The IWW fight for free speech on the West Coast / Melvyn Dubofsky -- The Washington race riot, 1919 / Arthur I. Waskow -- Feminism as a radical ideology / William L. O'Neill -- Depression: The organization of black and white farm workers in the South / Vera Rony -- The growers attack migrant labor organizations in California / Carey McWilliams -- The Second World War and after: Pearl Harbor and the activation of anti-Japanese sentiment in California / Jacobus tenBroek, Edward N. Barnhart, and Floyd W. Matson -- Death in Kentucky / David Welsh -- Revolt of the victims: Summary of the Kerner Report on civil disorders / The Kerner Commission -- The Alianza movement of New Mexico / Frances L. Swadesh -- Why women's liberation / Marlene Dixon -- The red man's burden / Peter Collier