A People and a Nation

Table of Contents

1. Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600

2. Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1640

3. North America in the Atlantic World, 1640-1720

4. American Society Transformed, 1720-1770

5. Severing the Bonds of Empire, 1754-1774

6. A Revolution, Indeed, 1774-1783

7. Forging a National Republic, 1776-1789

8. The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789-1800

9. Partisan Politics and War: The Democratic-Republicans in Power, 1801-1815

10. Nationalism, Expansion, and the Market Economy, 1816-1845

11. Reform and Politics in the Age of Jackson, 1824-1845

12. People and Communities in the North and West, 1830-1860

13. People and Communities in a Slave Society: The South, 1830-1860

14. Slavery and America's Future: The Road to War, 1845-1861

15. Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1961-1865

16. Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877

17. The Development of the West, 1877-1900

18. The Machine Age, 1877-1920

19. The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877-1920

20. Gilded Age Politics, 1877-1900

21. The Progressive Era, 1895-1920

22. The Quest for Empire, 1865-1914

23. Americans in the Great War, 1914-1920

24. The New Era, 1920-1929

25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1941

26. Peaceseekers and Warmakers: Americans in the World, 1920-1941

27. The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945

28. The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945-1961

29. America at Midcentury, 1945-1960

30. The Tumultuous Sixties, 1960-1968

31. Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969-1980

32. Conservatism Revived, 1980-1992

33. Global Bridges in the New Millennium: America Since 1992




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