Introductory Material

• Introduction - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Sidebar 1: John L. Cotter, 1911-1999 - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Sidebar 2: James F. Deetz, 1930-2000 - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Sidebar 3: What is it? What Does it Mean? - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Sidebar 4: Kathleen A. Deagan, 1948- - Lu Ann De Cunzo

Part 1: Cultures in Contact

• Melting Pots or Not? - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Spaniards and Native Americans at the Missions of La Florida - Jerald T. Milanich
• Bioarchaeology of the Spanish Missions - Clark Spencer Larsen
• African Americans on Southern Plantations - Leland Ferguson
• Black Seminole Freedom Fighters on the Florida Frontier - Terry Weik
• Sidebar 5: Fort Mose, St. Augustine, Florida - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• The Chinese in the Cities of the West - Roberta S. Greenwood

Part 2: Challenging and Changing Environments

• Exploring New Lands and Exploiting New Environments - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Early Encounters with a “New” Land: Vikings and Englishmen in the North American Arctic - William Fitzhugh
• Jamestown, Virginia - Andrew Edwards
• The Shipwreck of La Salle’s La Belle - James Bruseth
• Mining the West - R. Scott Baxter and Rebecca Allen

Part 3: Building Cities

• Tales of Many Cities - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Quebec City, Canada - William Moss
• New York City - Diana diZerega Wall and Nan A. Rothschild
• Community Archaeology in Alexandria, Virginia - Pamela J. Cressey
• Urban Life in Colonial Charleston, South Carolina - Martha Zierden
• Sidebar 6: Archaeology of African Americans - Martha Zierden
• Sidebar 7: The Nathaniel Russell House Project - Martha Zierden
• “A Place to Start from”: West Oakland, California - Lu Ann De Cunzo and Mary Praetzellis

Part 4: Making a Living in Rural America

• The Archaeology of Work - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• The Archaeology of Agricultural Life - Sara Mascia
• Sidebar 8: Farmstead Archaeology in the Arkansas Ozarks - Leslie Stewart-Abernathy
• Sidebar 9: Archaeology on Western Ranches - Margaret Purser
• Sidebar 10: Feminist Archaeology at a Dakota Village - Sarah McDowell
• Sidebar 11: Tenant Farmers in Delaware - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• The Archaeology of Rural Industry - David R. Starbuck
• Sidebar 12: Shaker Industry - David Starbuck
• Sidebar 13: Lessons from Two Shaker Smoking Pipe Fragments - Kim A. McBride
• Sidebar 14: Eli Whitney's Gun Factory - David Starbuck
• Sidebar 15: The New England Glassworks - David Starbuck
• Sidebar 16: Musseling in the Mississippi Watershed - David Starbuck
• Sidebar 17: Yulee Sugar Mills - Robin Denson
• Sidebar 18: The Bluff Furnace - David Starbuck

Part 5: Cultures in Conflict

• Contests on Land and at Sea - Lu Ann De Cunzo 174
• The Archaeology of America's Colonial Wars - David R. Starbuck
• Sidebar 19: Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Sidebar 20: Colonial Michilimackinac, Michigan - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• The Civil War Underwater - Sarah McDowell with Mark Wilde-Ramsing
• Native and "Newcomer": Battle of Little Bighorn - Richard A. Fox
• A Global Contest: World War II - Daniel Lenihan, Garry Cummins, James Delgado, David Clark, and Lu Ann De Cunzo

Part 6: Unlock the Past for the Future

• From the Past in the Present to the Future - Lu Ann De Cunzo
• Conserving Our Past - Lisa Young
• Historical Archaeology that Matters Beyond Academics - Maria Franklin
• The Past Belongs to Us All - John Triggs
• Does Historical Archaeology Really Matter in Today's World? - Audrey Horning
• Sidebar 21: Painting: "Unlocking the Past," by Martin Pate. - John H. Jameson, Jr.
• Epilogue - John H. Jameson, Jr.