Section I: Exploration
Chapter 1: Cristóbal Colón a Luis de Santángel
Chapter 2: Greenlanders' Saga, c. 1000
Chapter 3: Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santángel, 1493
Chapter 4: Jacques Cartier's First Voyage, 1534
Chapter 5: Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's Shipwreck off the Texas Coast, 1528-1536
Chapter 6: Jacques Marquette on Descending the Mississippi River with Louis Joliet, 1673
Chapter 7: Captain James Cook's Third Voyage, 1776-1780
Chapter 8: Osage Creation Account (Black Bear Clan Version), Recorded 1920s
Section II: Interpreting and Instructing New Peoples
Chapter 9: La Relation des Montagnais
Chapter 10: The Requerimiento, 1533 Version
Chapter 11: Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera on the Search for the Seven Cities of Cíbola, 1540
Chapter 12: Rock Painting, Pecos River Valley, Texas, 1500s
Chapter 13: Montagnais Indians on Their First Encounter with the French, Early 1500s
Chapter 14: John Smith on the Powhatans, 1607-1616
Chapter 15: John Eliot's Translation of the Bible into the Massachusett Language, 1663
Chapter 16: Olaudah Equiano on Encountering Europeans, 1740s
Chapter 17: Pontiac's Speech to an Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Huron Audience, 1763
Section III: Founding and Governing
Chapter 18: La Relation de Samuel de Champlain
Chapter 19: Great Law of the Iroquois League, c. 1300s (recorded late 1800s)
Chapter 20: Samuel de Champlain on Founding Quebec, 1608
Chapter 21: John Winthrop on Founding New England, 1630
Chapter 22: Laws for the Province of Pennsylvania, 1682
Chapter 23: Creek Leaders Meet the Trustees of Georgia, 1734
Chapter 24: Father Junípero Serra Writes from San Diego, 1770
Chapter 25: Catherine the Great's Response to a Petition to Establish a Russian Colony, 1788
Section IV: Social and Economic Life
Chapter 26: Método de Gobierno que se Observa en Esta Misión de la Purísima Concepción
Chapter 27: Thomas Campanius Holm's Engraving of New Sweden, 1640s
Chapter 28: Hans Sloane Observes Jamaica, 1687-1689
Chapter 29: Saukamappee on the Coming of Horses, Guns, and Smallpox, 1700s
Chapter 30: Benjamin Franklin Becomes a Printer, 1714-1723
Chapter 31: Eliza Lucas to Mrs. Boddicott, 1740
Chapter 32: Runaway Advertisements, Mid-1700s
Chapter 33: Mary Christina Martin's Case Before the German Society of Pennsylvania, 1772
Chapter 34: Spiritual and Temporal Guidelines for a Texas Mission, Late 1700s
Section V: Slavery
Chapter 35: Los Negros Fugitivos a le Rey de España
Chapter 36: François Froger's Plan of Fort Saint Jacques, Gambia, 1695
Chapter 37: New Netherland Act Emancipating Certain Slaves, 1644
Chapter 38: Virginia Codes Regulating Servitude and Slavery, 1642-1705
Chapter 39: Louisiana's Code Noir, 1724
Chapter 40: Venture Smith's Account of Slavery and Freedom, 1700s
Chapter 41: Afro-Floridians to the Spanish King, 1738
Chapter 42: George Whitefield Admonishes Southern Slaveholders, 1740
Chapter 43: Advertisement for a Slave Sale, Charleston, c. 1770s
Section VI: Women and Colonialism
Chapter 44: La Relation du Père Jacques Gravier
Chapter 45: Anne Bradstreet's Prologue to The Tenth Muse, 1650
Chapter 46: Marie de L'Incarnation to Her Son, 1667
Chapter 47: Deodat Lawson Describes Events at Salem, 1692
Chapter 48: Father Jacques Gravier Describes Indian Conversions at the Illinois Mission, 1694
Chapter 49: María de Jesús de Agreda and Catherine Tekakwitha, 1600s
Chapter 50: Susannah Johnson Recalls Her Captivity, 1754-1757
Chapter 51: Phillis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America," 1773
Section VII: Violent Conflict
Chapter 52: Antonio de Otermín a Francisco de Ayeta
Chapter 53: Francisco López de Mendoza Grájales's Account of the Conquest of Florida, 1565
Chapter 54: Henri Joutel's Account of the Murder of La Salle, 1687
Chapter 55: Antonio de Otermín Describes the Pueblo Revolt, 1680
Chapter 56: Antoine Simon Le Page Du Pratz Describes French Conflict with the Natchez, 1729
Chapter 57: George Washington Recalls His Defeats at Fort Duquesne, 1754-1755
Chapter 58: Louis-Antoine de Bougainville's Journal of the Seven Years' War, 1756
Chapter 59: Ohio Indians Talk to the British, 1764
