How freedom came to Porto Rico (1898), by William Dinwiddie

Execution Wall, Havana, photograph p. 568

The Court of Justice of General Gomez (1895), by Grover Flint

The eruption of Mont Pelée (1902), by Charles Augustus Stoddard

The Fer-de-Lance of Martinique, by Lafcadio Hearn

''The marble memory of Josephine'', empress of France, by Lafcadio Hearn

Toussaint L'Ouverture (1801), by Wendell Phillips

The first landing of Columbus (1492), by Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus

The West Indies: Historical note

The National Palace, city of Mexico, photograph p. 534

The rule of Porfirio Diaz (1877-1919), by Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost

The last moments of Maximilian, by Jean Paul Laurens (France, 1838), painting p. 524

Maximilian at Queretaro (1872), by Margaret Junkin Preston

The angels of Buena Vista (1847), by John G. Whittier

Mexico Part III: Modern Mexico: Historical note

Statue of Quauhtemoc, photograph p. 516

The fall of the city of Mexico (1521), by Jacob Abbott

The king without a throne, by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Has the god Quetzalcoatl come to Mexico ? (1519), by William Hickling Prescott

Mexico Part II: The coming of the Spaniards: Historical note