Volume 1: Chapters 1–15

Volume 2: Chapters 15–30

 

Part One An Old “New” World

Chapter 1 The Collision of Cultures in the Sixteenth Century

Chapter 2 England and Its American Colonies, 1607–1732

Chapter 3 Colonial Ways of Life, 1607–1750

Chapter 4 From Colonies to States, 1607–1776

 

Part Two Building a Nation

Chapter 5 The American Revolution, 1776–1783

Chapter 6 Creating a “More Perfect Union,” 1783–1800

Chapter 7 The Early Republic, 1800–1815

 

Part Three An Expanding Nation

Chapter 8 The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815–1850

Chapter 9 Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815–1828

Chapter 10 The Jacksonian Era, 1828–1840

Chapter 11 The South and Slavery, 1800–1860

Chapter 12 Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800–1860

 

Part Four A House Divided and Rebuilt

Chapter 13 Western Expansion and Southern Secession, 1830–1861

Chapter 14 The War of the Union, 1861–1865

Chapter 15 Reconstruction, 1865–1877

 

Part Five Growing Pains

Chapter 16 Big Business and Organized Labor, 1860–1900

Chapter 17 The South and the West Transformed, 1865–1900

Chapter 18 Society and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865–1900

Chapter 19 Seizing an American Empire, 1865–1913

 

Part Six Modern America

Chapter 20 The Progressive Era, 1890–1920

Chapter 21 America and the Great War, 1914–1920

Chapter 22 A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929

Chapter 23 New Deal America, 1929–1939

Chapter 24 The Second World War, 1933–1945

 

Part Seven The American Age

Chapter 25 The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952

Chapter 26 Affluence and Anxiety in the Atomic Age, 1950–1959

Chapter 27 New Frontiers, 1960–1968

Chapter 28 Rebellion and Reaction, the 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 29 Conservative Revival, 1977–1990

Chapter 30 Twenty-First-Century America, 1993–present