Chapter 1: The Architects of The Birth of a Nation: Thomas Dixon, Jr. and David Wark Griffith
Chapter 2: Blackface, Disguise and Invisibility in the Reception of The Birth of a Nation
Chapter 3: The Birth of a Nation's "melodrama of pathos and action" : a tale of "national rebirth"
Chapter 4: The Battle of Petersburg: Griffith's "big scenes"
Chapter 5: The Birth of a Nation Footage We Do Not Want to Find
Chapter 6: Fixing The Birth of a Nation?: Hampton Institute and The New Era
Chapter 7: A Most Serious Loss in Business": Race, Citizenship and Protest in New Haven, Connecticut
Chapter 8: Resisting The Birth of a Nation in Virginia
Chapter 9: "At this time in this city": Black Atlanta and the Premiere of The Birth of a Nation
Chapter 10: The Meaning of Emancipation: African American Memory as a Challenge to The Birth of a Nation
Chapter 11: Transatlantic "Structural Amnesia": The Birth of A Nation in Britain 1915-16
Chapter 12: Black Horror on the Rhine": D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and the French-occupied Rhineland after World War I
Chapter 13: The Influence of The Birth of a Nation on South Africa: Film Culture and Race
Chapter 14: "Should it Not Therefore Be Banned?": Screening and Broadcasting The Birth of a Nation in Britain
Chapter 15: "Still a North and a South": The Birth of a Nation and National Trauma.