Volume 1: Chapters 1–15 (Beginnings to Reconstruction)

Volume 2: Chapters 15–28 (Reconstruction to the Present)

 

Part 1: American Colonies to 1763

Chapter 1: Old Worlds and New

Chapter 2: European Colonies and Native Nations, 1600–1660

Chapter 3: Creating Anglo-America, 1660–1750

Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire, to 1763

 

Part 2: A New Nation, 1763–1840

Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1763–1783

Chapter 6: The Revolution Within

Chapter 7: Founding a Nation, 1783–1791

Chapter 8: Securing the Republic, 1791–1815

Chapter 9: The Market Revolution, 1800–1840

Chapter 10: Democracy in America, 1815–1840

 

Part 3: Slavery, Freedom, and the Crisis of the Union, 1840–1877

Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution

Chapter 12: An Age of Reform, 1820–1840

Chapter 13: A House Divided, 1840–1861

Chapter 14: A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861–1865

Chapter 15: "What Is Freedom?": Reconstruction, 1865–1877

 

 

Part 4: Toward a Global Presence, 1870–1920

Chapter 16: America's Gilded Age, 1870–1890

Chapter 17: Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900

Chapter 18: The Progressive Era, 1900–1916

Chapter 19: Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920

 

Part 5: Depression and Wars, 1920–1953

Chapter 20: From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932

Chapter 21: The New Deal, 1932–1940

Chapter 22: Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945

Chapter 23: The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953

 

Part 6: What Kind of Nation? 1953–2020

Chapter 24: An Affluent Society, 1953–1960

Chapter 25: The Sixties, 1960–1968

Chapter 26: The Conservative Turn, 1969–1988

Chapter 27: A New World Order, 1989–2004

Chapter 28: A Divided Nation