Volume I
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Early Voyages, French Settlements in America
- Chapter 2: Spaniards in Florida and On the Pacific Coast
- Chapter 3: Spaniards in the Mississippi Valley
- Chapter 4: The Spaniards Hold Florida
- Chapter 5: The English Attempt Colonization
- Chapter 6: England Plants a New Nation in Virginia
- Chapter 7: Virginia Obtains Civil Liberty
- Chapter 8: Slavery, Dissolution of the London Company
- Chapter 9: Restrictions on Colonial Commerce
- Chapter 12: The Pilgrims
- Chapter 13: New England’s Plantation
- Chapter 14: Self-Government in Massachusetts