ch. 1. Trends in late nineteenth century American historiography: the theory of Teutonic origin: Background ; Teutonic hypothesis and the comparative method -- ch. 2. Teuton and immigrant: John Fiske ; John W. Burgess ; Henry Cabot Lodge -- ch. 3. Henry Adams' Norman ancestors -- ch. 4. European peoples in the American forest: Selection of the peoples ; Francis Parkman ; Theodore Roosevelt -- ch. 5. Frontier and urban melting pots: Frederick Jackson Turner ; Woodrow Wilson -- ch. 6. Immigrant and American political development: Hermann Eduard von Holst ; James Schouler ; James Ford Rhodes -- ch. 7. Immigrant and American society: John Bach McMaster ; Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer ; Edward Channing and H.L. Osgood -- ch. 8. Toward a corrective viewpoint: Filiopietism ; Beyond 1925.
