Table of Contents
The age of exploration / 1000-1613 -- Settling the colonies / 1606-1774 -- The struggle for independence / 1775-1787 -- The growing republic / 1783-1859 -- The Civil War / 1861-1865 -- Westward expansion and beyond / 1865-1913 -- The world in conflict / 1914-1945 -- Post World War II -- United States today.