Table of Content
Contents 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 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 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 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 V. Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad, 1901–1945 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 VI. Making Modern America, 1945–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
