Front Matter
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Instructional Techniques and Resources
Part II: Historical Investigations for Students
Prologue
Chapter 1: Native Peoples of America, to 1500
Chapter 2: Rise of the Atlantic World, 1400-1625
Chapter 3: Expansion and Diversity: The Rise of Colonial America, 1625-1700
Chapter 4: The Bonds of Empire, 1660–1750
Chapter 5: Roads to Revolution, 1750–1776
Chapter 6: Securing Independence, Defining Nationhood, 1776–1788
Chapter 7: Launching the New Republic, 1789–1800
Chapter 8: Jeffersonianism and the Era of Good Feelings, 1801-1824
Chapter 9: The Transformation of American Society, 1815–1840
Chapter 10: Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform, 1824-1840
Chapter 11: Technology, Culture, and Everyday Life, 1840–1860
Chapter 12: The Old South and Slavery, 1830–1860
Chapter 13: Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict, 1840–1848
Chapter 14: From Compromise to Secession, 1850–1861
Chapter 15: Crucible of Freedom: Civil War, 1861–1865
Chapter 16: The Crises of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Chapter 17: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900
Chapter 18: The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900
Chapter 19: Immigration, Urbanization, and the Transformation of Popular Culture and Everyday Life, 1860-1900
Chapter 20: Politics and Expansion in an Industrializing Age, 1877-1900
Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1900-1917
Chapter 22: Global Involvements and World War I, 1902-1920
Chapter 23: The 1920s: Coping with Change
Chapter 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
Chapter 25: Americans and a World in Crisis, 1933–1945
Chapter 26: Cold War America, 1945–1952
Chapter 27: America at Midcentury, 1952-1960
Chapter 28: The Liberal Era, 1960-1968
Chapter 29: A Time of Upheaval, 1968-1974
Chapter 30: Society, Politics, and World Events from Ford to Reagan, 1974-1989
Chapter 31: Beyond the Cold War: Charting a New Course, 1988-1995
Chapter 32: New Century, New Challenges, 1996 to the Present