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| Chapter 1: |  | Out of Old Worlds, New Worlds |
| Chapter 2: | | The First Experiments, 1540-1680 |
| Chapter 3: | | Imperial Connections, 1660-1748 |
| Chapter 4: | | Colonial Maturation and Conflict, 1680-1754 |
| Chapter 5: | | Forging the American Experiment, 1754-1775 |
| Chapter 6: | | Winning Independence, 1775-1783
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| Chapter 7: | | The Federal Experiment, 1783-1800 |
| Chapter 8: | | Striving for Nationhood, 1800-1824 |
| Chapter 9: | | An Emerging Capitalist Nation, 1790-1820 |
| Chapter 10: | | Transforming the Political Culture, 1820-1840 |
| Chapter 11: | | Industry and Reform in the North, 1820-1850 |
| Chapter 12: | | Living with Slavery, North and South, 1820-1850 |
| Chapter 13: | | The Westward Experiment, 1820-1850 |
| Chapter 14: | | The Sectional Challenge, 1848-1860 |
| Chapter 15: | | Transforming the Experiment: The Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Chapter 16: | | Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1900 |
| Chapter 17: | | Conquering the New West, 1862-1900 |
| Chapter 18: | | The Industrialization Experiment, 1865-1900 |
| Chapter 19: | | The New Urban Nation, 1865-1900 |
| Chapter 20: | | State and Society, 1877-1900 |
| Chapter 21: | | The Progressive Era, 1889-1916
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| Chapter 22: | | The Experiment in American Empire, 1865-1917 |
| Chapter 23: | | Making the World Safe for Democracy: America and World War I, 1914-1920 |
| Chapter 24: | | The New Era, 1920-1928 |
| Chapter 25: | | "Fear Itself": Crash, Depression, and the New Deal, 1929-1938 |
| Chapter 26: | | War and Society, 1933-1945 |
| Chapter 27: | | The Cold War, 1945-1952 |
| Chapter 28: | | The Consumer Society, 1945-1960 |
| Chapter 29: | | Consensus and Confrontation, 1960-1968 |
| Chapter 30: | | The Politics of Polarization, 1969-1979 |
| Chapter 31: | | The Reagan Experiment, 1979-1988 |
| Chapter 32: | | America After the Cold War, 1988-2000 |
| Epilogue: | | The Challenges of the New Century |
