Portrait of America, Volume One: To 1877 by Stephen Oates, Charles J. Errico, Charles J. Errico, Charles J. Errico

I. The European Discovery
1.David E. Stannard, The American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World
2.Page Smith, From These Beginnings II. The First Century
3.Gary B. Nash, Black People in a White People's Country
4.John Demos, The Deerfield Massacre III. Transformations
5.Paula A. Treckel, "The Empire of My Heart": The Marriage of William Byrd II and Lucy Parke Byrd
6.Walter Isaacson, Citizen Ben: A Worldly American's Seven Great Virtues IV. "When in the Course of Human Events..."
7.David McCullough, John Adams and the Coming of the Revolution
8.Douglas L. Wilson, Thomas Jefferson and the Meanings of Liberty V. Birth of the Republic
9.H. W. Brands, Miracle at Philadelphia
10.Gordon S. Wood, The Greatness of George Washington VI. Patterns of Society
11.Jack Larkin, The Personal Side of a Developing People
12.Sally G. McMillen, "I'm Almost Worn Out in the Cause": Motherhood and Childbearing in the Old South VII. The Nation Takes Shape
13.Joseph J. Ellis, The Duel
14.Brian McGinty, The Great Chief Justice VIII. Woe If It Comes with Storm and Blood and Fire
15.Stephen B. Oates, The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion
16.Ira Berlin, "I Will Be Heard!": William Lloyd Garrison and the Struggle Against Slavery IX. The Age of Jackson
17.John F. Marszalek, Andrew Jackson: Flamboyant Hero of the Common Man
18.Joe B. Frantz, A Giant of Contradictions: The Irrepressible Sam Houston X. The Growth of Technology
19.Peter L. Bernstein, The Erie Canal: The Waterway That Shaped a Great Nation
20.Steven Yafa, Camelot on the Merrimack XI. Beyond the Mississippi
21.Dee Brown, The Trail of Tears
22.Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell, Women and Their Families on the Overland Trails XII. "To Make Them Stand in Fear": The Slaveowning South
23.John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaways from a Hellish System
24.Benjamin Quarles, Let My People Go: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad XIII. The Death of Slavery
25.Ken Chowder, The Father of American Terrorism
26.Stephen B. Oates, Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation XIV. The Scourge of Civil War
27.Stephen B. Oates, The Ravages of War
28.Bruce Catton, Hayfoot, Strawfoot! XV. A Troubled Peace
29.James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, "Call Me Mister": The Black Experience During Reconstruction
30.Eric Foner, The Checkered History of the Great Fourteenth Amendment