Worlds apart — Transplantation, 1600-1685 — The creation of new worlds — Convergence and conflict, 1660s-1763 — Imperial breakdown, 1763-1774 — The war for independence, 1774-1783 — The first Republic, 1776-1789 — A new republic and the rise of parties, 1789-1800 — The triumph and collapse of Jeffersonian republicanism, 1800-1824 — The Jacksonian era, 1824-1845 — Industrial change and urbanization, 1820-1850 — The way West — Slavery and the old South, 1800-1860 — Reforming antebellum society, 1815-1850 — The politics of sectionalism, 1846-1861 — Battle cries and freedom songs: the Civil War, 1861-1863 — The Union preserved: the Civil War, 1863-1865 — Reconstruction, 1865-1877 — A new South, 1877-1900 — Industry, immigrants, and cities, 1870-1900 — Transforming the West, 1865-1890 — Politics and government, 1877-1900 — The progressive era, 1900-1917 — Creating an empire, 1865-1917 — America and the Great War, 1914-1920 — Toward a modern America: the 1920s — The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939 — World War II, 1939-1945 — The Cold War at home and abroad, 1946-1952 — The confident years, 1953-1964 — Shaken to the roots, 1965-1980 — Shaping a new America, since 1965-1995 — Searching for stability in a changing world, since 1980.