1 简介 (Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?)
2 老南方介绍 (Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum )
3 老南方与奴隶制度 (A Southern World View: The Old South and Proslavery Ideology )
4 美国北方 (A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology)
5 自由的故事 (Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality)
6 扩张和奴隶制度 (Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850)
7 地狱风暴：堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法 和 民主党的成立 "A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party, 1854-55
8 德雷德·史考特案， 血溅堪萨斯 和 联邦面临的危机Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union, 1855-58
9 约翰·布朗的圣战 John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
10 1860年大选和分离危机 The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
11 奴隶制度和州权利， 经济和生活方式：什么是美国内战的肇因？ Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
12 内战爆发：萨姆特堡危机 "And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis,Comparative Strategies
13 南部邦联Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency, 1861-1862
14 决不撤退: 1863 年美国内战军事和政治转折点 Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
15 林肯的领导艺术,种族问题: 解放奴隶政策 Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy
16 解放奴隶和美国内战的历史意义 Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
17 内战后方和前方: “硬战”及战争的影响 Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War
18 可怕的战争: 联邦军的胜利与南方邦联军的失败 "War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost at Home and Abroad
19 To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
20 Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
21 Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction
22 Constitutional Crisis and Impeachment of a President
23 Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor
24 Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"
25 The "End" of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the "Compromise of 1877"
26 Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
27 Legacies of the Civil War