- 1Dedication — Prefatory Note
- 2Chapter I — The New England Historians
- 3Chapter II — Early Years
- 4Chapter III — The Choice of a Career
- 5Chapter IV — Success
- 6Chapter V — In Mid Career
- 7Chapter VI — The Last Ten Years
- 8Chapter VII — “Ferdinand and Isabella” — Prescott’s Style
- 9Chapter VIII — The “Conquest of Mexico” as Literature and as History
- 10Chapter IX — “The Conquest of Peru” — “Philip II.”
- 11Chapter X — Prescott’s Rank as an Historian
William Hickling Prescott
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