Table of Contents
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.