Table of Content
Part I: FOUNDING THE NEW NATION, C. 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1783.1. New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1769.2. The Planting of English America, 1500-1733.3. Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700.4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692.5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775.6. The Duel for North America, 1608-1763.7. The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775.8. America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783.Part II: BUILDING THE NEW NATION, 1776-1860.9. The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790.10. Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800.11. The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812.12. The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824.13. The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840.14. Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860.15. The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860.Part III: TESTING THE NEW NATION, 1820-1877.16. The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860.17. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848.18. Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854.19. Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861.20. Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861-1865.21. The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865.22. The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.Part IV: FORGING AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, 1869-1909.23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896.24. Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900.25. America Moves to the City, 1865-1900.26. The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896.27. Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909.Part V: STRUGGLING FOR JUSTICE AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1900-1945.28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912.29. Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916.30. The War to End War, 1917-1918.31. American Life in the "Roaring Twenties," 1919-1929.32. The Politics of Boom and Bust, 1920-1932.33. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939.34. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War, 1933-1941.35. America in World War II, 1941-1945.Part VI: MAKING MODERN AMERICA, 1945 TO THE PRESENT.36. The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952.37. The Eisenhower Era, 1952-1960.38. The Stormy Sixties, 1960-1968.39. The Stalemated Seventies, 1968-1980.40. The Resurgence of Conservatism, 1980-1992.41. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2004.42. The American People Face a New Century.
