I. The search for "Lo Mexicano". The Mexican character / Joel Poinsett
The cosmic race / José Vasconcelos
The sons of La Malinche / Octavio Paz
The problem of national culture / Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa
Mexico City, 1992 / Alma Guillermoprieto
Two Ranchera songs / José Alfredo Jiménez and Cuco Sánchez

II. Ancient civilizations. The origins of the Aztec / Anonymous
The Feast of the Flaying of Men / Inga Clendinnen
The Totocalli (Motecuhzoma's 'Zoo') / Andrés Bustamante Agudelo and Israel Elizalde Méndez
The meaning of maize for the Maya / J. Eric Thompson
Omens foretelling the conquest / Anonymous

III. Conquest and colony. The Spaniards' entry into Tenochtitlán / Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Hernán Cortés
Cortés and Montezuma / J.H. Elliott
The Battles of Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco / Anonymous
The spiritual conquest / Fray Jerónimo de Mendieta
Why the Indians are dying / Alonso de Zorita
A Baroque Archbishop-Viceroy / Irving Leonard
On men's hypocrisy / Sor Juana
Whites, Negros, castes / Alexander von Humboldt
The itching parrot, the priest, and the subdelegate / José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

IV. Trials of the young Republic. The siege of Guanajuato / Lucas Alamán
Sentiments of the nation / José María Morelos
Plan of Iguala / Agustín de Iturbide
Women and war in Mexico / Frances Calderón de la Barca
The glorious revolution of 1844 / Guillermo Prieto
Décimas dedicated to Santa Anna's leg / Anonymous
A conservative profession of faith / The editors of El Tiempo
Considerations relating to the political and social situation / Mariano Otero
Liberals and the land / Luis González y González
Standard plots and rural resistance / Raymond B. Craib
Offer of the crown to Maximilian / Junta of Conservative Notables
A letter from Mexico / Empress Carlotta
The triumph of the Republic / Benito Juárez
Porfirio Díaz visits Yucatán / Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost
Scenes from a lumber camp / B. Traven
President Díaz, hero of the Americas / James Creelman
Gift of the skeletons / Anonymous

V. Revolution. Land and liberty / Ricardo Flores Magón
Plan of Ayala / Emiliano Zapata
The restoration of the Ejido / Luis Cabrera
Zapatistas in the palace / Martín Luis Guzmán
Mexico has been turned into a hell / William O. Jenkins
Pancho Villa / John Reed
La punitiva / Anonymous
Pedro Martínez / Oscar Lewis
Amelio Robles's gender battles in the Zapatista Army / Gabriela Cano
Juan the Chamula / Ricardo Pozas
The Constitution of 1917 : Articles 27 and 123
An agrarian encounter / Rosalie Evans
Ode to Cuauhtémoc / Carlos Pellicer
The socialist ABC's / Anonymous
The ballad of Valentín de la Sierra / Anonymous
Mexico must become a nation of institutions and laws / Plutarco Elías Calles
The formation of the single-party state / Carlos Fuentes
The rough and tumble career of Pedro Crespo / Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells
A convention in Zacapu / Salvador Lemus Fernández
The agrarian reform in La Laguna / Fernando Benítez
The oil expropriation / Josephus Daniels

VI. The perils of modernity.They gave us the land / Juan Rulfo
Mexico's crisis / Daniel Cosío Villegas
Struggles of a campesino leader / Rubén Jaramillo
Art and corruption / David Alfaro Siqueiros
The two faces of Acapulco during the Golden Age / Andrew Sackett
The dark deeds of "El Negro" Durazo / José González G
The sinking city / Joel Simon
Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl / Roberto Vallarino
Roma exposes Mexico's darkest secrets / Marcela García
Modesta Gómez / Rosario Castellanos
La Costa Chica and the struggles of Mexico's "third root" / Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran
Afro-Mexican militancy on the Costa Chica

VII. From the ruins. The student movement of 1968 / Elena Poniatowska
El Santo's strange career / Anne Rubenstein
After the earthquake / Victims' Coordinating Council
Letters to Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas / Anonymous
Identity hour / Carlos Monsiváis
The political manifesto of the COCEI of Juchitan, Oaxaca / The COCEI
Women of Juchitán / Jeffrey W. Rubin
EZLN demands at the dialogue table / Zapatista Army of National Liberation
A Tzotzil chronicle / Marián Peres Tsu
Debtors' revenge / Heather Williams

VIII. The border and beyond. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Plan of San Diego / Anonymous
The "wetback invasion" / Timothy J. Henderson
The high cost of deportation / Julia Preston
A Honduran teenager's odyssey across borders / Sonia Nazario
Two poems about immigrant life / Pat Mora and Gina Valdés
The Maquiladora workers of Juárez find their voice / David Bacon
Dompe days / Luis Alberto Urrea
Two songs about drug smuggling / Paulino Vargas and Chalino Sánchez
"We are more American" / Enrique Valencia

IX. From the perfect dictatorship to an imperfect democracy. Mexicans would not be bought, coerced / Wayne A. Cornelius
Assessing NAFTA : before and after / Mark Weisbrot and Vicente Fox
Ayotzinapa : a father's testimony / John Gibler
The narco who died twice / Ioan Grillo
The promise and peril of López Obrador / Denise Dresser
AMLO on corruption / Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Traditional medicine in modern Mexico and the challenge of COVID-19 / Gabriela Soto
Laveaga and the Nich Ixim Midwives Movement
Should I die abroad, bring me back to Mexico / Jorge Ramos.