Introduction: Toward a new American history

Part I. Indians and empires. American Genesis: Indians and the Spanish borderlands

The Native Northeast and the rise of British North America

The unpredictability of violence: Iroquoia and New France to 1701

The Native inland sea: The struggle for the heart of the continent, 1701-55

Settler uprising: the Indigenous origins of the American Revolution

Colonialism's Constitution: The origins of Federal Indian policy

Part II. Struggles for sovereignty. The deluge of settler Colonialism: Democracy and dispossession in the early Republic

Foreign policy formations: California, The Pacific, and the Borderlands origins of the Monroe Doctrine

Collapse and total war: the Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War

Taking children and treaty lands: laws and Federal power during the Reservation era

Indigenous twilight at the dawn of the century: Native activists and the myth of Indian disappearance

From termination to self-determination: Native American sovereignty and the Cold War era