1. Introduction: what, then, is the American? / Christopher Bigsby
2. The American century / Godfrey Hodgson
3. The regions and regionalism / Richard H. King
4. Immigration to the United States in the twentieth century / Roger Daniels
5. Religion in the United States in the twentieth century: 1900-1960 / Peter W. Williams
6. Shifting boundaries: religion and the United States: 1960 to the present / Wade Clark Roof and Nathalie Caron
7. The Hispanic background of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos
8. African Americans since 1900 / Werner Sollors
9. Asian Americans / James Kyung-Jin Lee
10. Women in the twentieth century / S.J. Kleinberg
11. Queer America / Robert McRuer
12. The United States, war, and the twentieth century / Kenneth P. O'Brien
13. The culture of the Cold War / Stephen J. Whitfield
14. Secret America: the CIA and American culture / Hugh Wilford
15. Vietnam and the 1960s / John Hellmann
16. New York City and the struggle of the modern / Eric Homberger
17. Music: sound: technology / William Brooks
18. African American music of the twentieth century / Paul Oliver
19. Hollywood cinema / Walter Metz
20. Popular culture / Paul Buhle
21. Theatre / Brenda Murphy
22. Society and the novel in twentieth-century America / Emory Elliott
23. "Preferring the wrong way": mapping the ethical diversity of US twentieth-century poetry / Tim Woods.
The Cambridge companion to modern American culture. ISBN 9780521601092. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.