Chapters 1–15 (Beginnings to Reconstruction)

 

Chapter 1: Old Worlds and New

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

Chapter 3: The Rise of Anglo-America, 1660–1750

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

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

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