Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

Volume 1.Research, writing, and publication -- Care and editing of manuscripts -- Materials of history -- Aids to historical research -- Printed public documents -- Unpublished primary sources -- Microform materials -- Printed historical works -- Travels and descriptions -- Biographies and writings -- Introduction to American history -- Regional, state, and local histories -- Westward expansion and the frontier -- Physical environment -- Government -- Law -- Politics -- Economic history -- Demography and social structure -- Immigration and ethnicity -- Social ills and reform -- Social manners and customs -- Education -- Religion -- Intellectual history -- Literature -- Communication -- The arts -- Pure and applied sciences -- Volume 2. Colonial period to 1789 -- Age of discovery -- Non-English settlements in America -- Rise of Anglo-America -- Development of the colonies, 1688-1763 -- British empire and colonial policy, 1660-1763 -- Revolutionary era, 1763-1789 -- Histories of special subjects, 1607-1789 -- United States, 1789-1860 -- Federalist era, 1789-1801 -- Republican supremacy, 1801-1817 -- New nationalism, 1817-1829 -- Jacksonian democracy, 1829-1841 -- Manifest destiny -- Old south, slavery, and abolitionism -- Making of the Civil War -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- The Gilded Age, 1877-1900 -- American empire, 1898-1933 -- United States in the twentieth century -- Progressive era -- The twenties -- Depression, Hoover administration, and New Deal -- World War II, 1941-1945 -- Domestic issues since 1945 -- Foreign relations since 1945.