1: Early political parties: the views of the founders
2: Quids, workingmen, anti-masons and nullifiers: America's earliest third parties and factions
3: The struggle for freedom: the Liberty Party
4: Barnburners and conscience Whigs: Martin Van Buren and the Free Soil Party in 1848
5: Free Democrats, southern rights and native Americans: third-party movements in the early 1850s
6: Parties in disarray: the nativist movement gains ground
7: The brass-knuckle crusade: the emergence of the know-nothing party
8: A fleeting three-party system: know-nothings and republicans replace the Moribund Whigs
9: Rising from the ashes: John Bell and the Constitutional unionists of 1860
10: The Civil War years: the national union party, copperheads and the Cleveland 400
11: The liberal republican movement: reformers versus politicians
12: the prohibition and labor reform parties: new political movements begin to take shape
13: Victoria Woodhull and the emergence of feminist politics: free love, spiritualism and equal rights in the 1872 presidential campaign
14: The birth of the Greenback party: agrarian and currency reformers enter the fray
15: The workingmen's party of the United States: the nation's original Marxist party
16: The Iowa insurgent: the Greenback-labor party at high tide
17: John P. St. John & "Beast" Butler: the prohibition and anti-monopoly parties in 1884
18: Spoilers: third-party candidates wreck havoc on the two-party system.
