v. 1: -- Part I: -- A new world -- Who came? -- Legacy of liberty -- New England and the middle colonies -- The southern colonies -- Indians and settlers -- Common grievances and common dangers -- Mercantilism -- The delights of the homeland -- "What then is the American, this new man?" -- Part II: -- The Revenue Act -- James Otis and the beginnings of resistance -- The Stamp Act -- The riots -- The Stamp Act Congress -- America in rebellion -- Parliament's battle over repeal -- The Stamp Act in retrospect -- Part III: -- The British blunder again -- The case of the liberty -- The repeal of the Townshend Duties -- Redcoats in Boston -- The Battle of Golden Hill -- More trouble in Boston -- The Boston Massacre -- The aftermath of the massacre and the trial -- The Gaspee Affair -- The Boston Tea Party -- The Boston Port bill -- The Massachusetts Government Act and the Quebec Act -- Part IV: -- The Continental Congress: nursery of American statesmen -- Down to business -- England -- The lull before the storm -- Lexington -- Concord -- Boston besieged -- Bunker Hill -- Part V: -- The Second Continental Congress -- Washington makes an army -- Ticonderoga -- The invasion of Canada -- Arold's march -- Clinton attacks Charles Town -- Guerrilla warfare on the water -- Dorchester Heights -- Patriots and Tories -- Common sense -- Toward independence: the Virginia resolves -- The Declaration of Independence -- Part VI: -- Washington in New York -- The Battle of Long Island -- The evacuation of Brooklyn -- Kip's Bay -- Turnabout; Harlem Heights -- White Plains -- The struggle for Fort Washington -- Howe invades New Jersey -- Trenton -- Princeton -- The Continental Congress -- The states make constitutions -- England, 1776.

v. 2: -- Part VII: -- Howe tries the Jerseys again -- Burgoyne's invasion -- Forts Stanwix and Oriskany -- Bennington -- Saratoga -- Brandywine -- The Paoli Massacre and Germantown -- Foreign volunteers -- Forts Mifflin and Mercer -- The army goes into winter quarters, 1777-78 -- The Conway Cabal -- The British in Philadelphia -- The French Alliance -- England -- Part VIII: -- Monmouth -- The Battle of Rhode Island -- Winter quarters, 1778-79 -- Meanwhile congress ... -- Border warfare: the Wyoming valley -- Sullivan's expedition -- Border warfare: New York -- George Rogers Clark -- The capture of Vincennes -- The southern frontier -- The Sandusky expedition -- The end of the border war -- The war on the high seas -- Naval "militia" and privateers -- John Paul Jones -- The continuing war at sea -- Part IX: -- From Savannah to Brier Creek -- Prevost threatens Charles Town -- Failure at Savannah -- Stony Point and Paulus Hook -- Fort Wilson -- Parliament takes stock -- The surrender of Charles Town -- From the Waxhaw Massacre to Ramsour's Mill -- Camden -- King's Mountain -- Greene takes command -- Cowpens -- Greene runs -- Guilford court house -- Hobkirks Hill -- Greene turns south -- Part X: -- Morristown: 1779-80 -- Springfield and after -- Parliament -- General Arnold and the British -- Treason -- The mutiny of the Pennsylvania line -- Lafayette in Virginia -- Congress -- The episode at Green Spring Farm -- To Virginia -- The Battle of the Capes -- The seige of Yorktown -- Parliament reacts -- Peace negotiations -- The aftermath of Yorktown -- Congress: a rope of sand -- The army disbands -- Blacks in the revolution -- Women in the revolution -- Novus Ordo Seclorum.