1. Phases and problems of American diplomacy
2. Pre-revolutionary boundaries
3. Recognition
4. Spain and Holland
5. Peace
6. Religion and commerce
7. The West
8. Old problems in new hands
9. The establishment of neutrality
10. The jay treaty
11. War and peace with France
12. The Louisiana purchase
13. The Embargo
14. War with England
15. Peace
16. Commerce and boundaries
17. The Monroe Doctrine
18. Reciprocity, claims, boundaries, and the slave trade
19. Expansion
20. Annexation
21. Diplomacy and politics
22. The Civil War
23. The Civil War and the Monroe Doctrine
24. The aftermath of the Civil War
25. Routine, 1861 to 1877
26. Baiting the lion, 1877-1897
27. Blaine, Olney and the Monroe Doctrine
28. Growth of American influence in the Pacific
29. The Spanish War
30. Imperialism and Great Britain (1898-1914)
31. Spanish America (1898-1914)
32. The Pacific (1898-1914)
33. Routine and Arbitration (1898-1914)
34. Mexico
35. The World War
36. Projection and Recoil
37. Normalcy