1. Introduction : archaeology of the modern world / Martin Hall and Stephen W. Silliman
2. Environments of history : biological dimensions of historical archaeology / Stephen A. Mrozowski
3. Material culture and text : exploring the spaces within and between / Patricia Galloway
4. place of space : architecture, landscape, and social life / Elizabeth P. Pauls
5. Critical archaeology : politics past and present / Matthew M. Palus, Mark P. Leone and Matthew D. Cochran
6. Engendered archaeology : men, women, and others / Barbara L. Voss
7. Ideology and the material culture of life and death / Heather Burke
8. Struggling with labor, working with identities / Stephen W. Silliman
9. Exploring the institution : reform, confinement, social change / Lu Ann De Cunzo
10. class all its own : explorations of class formation and conflict / LouAnn Wurst
11. Conquistadors, plantations, and quilombo : Latin America in historical archaeological context / Pedro Paulo A. Funari
12. Gold, black ivory, and houses of stone : historical archaeology in Africa / Innocent Pikirayi
13. Becoming American : small things remembered / Diana DiPaolo Loren and Mary C. Beaudry
14. Missions, furs, gold, and manifest destiny : rethinking an archaeology of colonialism for Western North America / Kent G. Lightfoot
15. Pacific encounters, or beyond the islands of history / Jane Lydon
16. tide reversed : prospects and potentials for a postcolonial archaeology of Europe / Matthew Johnson.