Note: Each chapter concludes with a summary, review questions, timeline, and bibliography. Part I. The Creation of American Society, 1450-1763
1. Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, and America, 1450-1620
Native American Societies
Europe Encounters Africa and the Americas, 1450-1550
The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of England
Reading American Pictures: Maize for Blankets: Indian Trading Networks on the Great Plains
Voices From Abroad: Father Le Petite: The Customs of the Natchez
Comparing American Voices: The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
2. The Invasion and Settlement of North America, 1550-1700
The Rival Imperial Models of Spain, France, and Holland
The English Arrive: The Chesapeake Experience
Puritan New England
The Eastern Indians New World
Voices From Abroad: Samuel de Champlain: Going to War with the Hurons
Reading American Pictures: Skeletons and Angels: Exploring Colonial New England Cemeteries
Comparing American Voices: The Causes of the War of 1675-1676
3. The British Empire in America, 1660-1750
The Politics of Empire, 1660-1713
The Imperial Slave Economy
The New Politics of Empire, 1713-1750
Voices from Abroad: Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal ÒMiddle Passage"
Reading American Pictures: Jumping the Broomstick: Viewing An African Ceremony in South Carolina
Comparing American Voices: The Rise of Representative Assemblies
4. Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society, 1720-1765
Freehold Society in New England
The Middle Atlantic: Toward a New Society, 1720-1765
The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1720-1765
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-1765
Comparing American Voices: Ethnic Customs and Conflict
Voices from Abroad: Gottlieb Mittelberger: The Perils of Migration
Reading American Pictures: Almanacs and Meetinghouses: Exploring Popular Culture
Part II. The New Republic, 1763-1820
5. Toward Independence: Years of Decision, 1763-1776
Imperial Reform, 1763-1765
The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765-1770
The Road to Independence, 1771-1776
Reading American Pictures: How Did the British View the Crisis in the Colonies?
Comparing American Voices: The Debate Over Representation and Sovereignty
Voices from Abroad: Thomas Paine: Common Sense
6. Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789
The Trials of War, 1776-1778
The Path to Victory, 1778-1783
Creating Republican Institutions, 1776-1787
The Constitution of 1787
Voices From Abroad: Baroness Von Riedesel: The Surrender of Burgoyne, 1777
Reading American Pictures: Did the Revolution Promote Womens Rights?
Comparing American Voices: The First National Debate Over Slavery
7. Politics and Society in the New Republic, 1787-1820
The Political Crisis of the 1790s
The Westward Movement and the Jeffersonian Revolution
The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics
Reading American Pictures: Creating a National Political Tradition
Voices From Abroad: William Cobbett: Peter Porcupine Attacks Pro-French Americans
Comparing American Voices: Factional Politics and the War of 1812
8. Creating a Republican Culture, 1790-1820
The Capitalist Commonwealth
Toward a Democratic Republican Culture
Aristocratic Republicanism and Slavery
Protestant Christianity as a Social Force
Comparing American Voices: The Trials of Married Life
Reading American Pictures: Changing Middle-Class Families: Assessing the Visual Record
Voices From Abroad: Frances Trollope: A Camp Meeting in Indiana
Part III. Economic Revolution and Sectional Strife, 1820-1877
9. Economic Transformation, 1820-1860
The American Industrial Revolution
The Market Revolution
Changes in the Social Structure
Reading American Pictures: How Did Americans Dramatically Increase Farm Productivity?
Voices From Abroad: Ernst Stille: German Immigrants in the Midwest
Comparing American Voices: A Debate Over Catholic Immigration
10. A Democratic Revolution, 1820-1844
The Rise of Popular Politics, 1820-1829
The Jacksonian Presidency, 1829-1837
Class, Culture, and the Second Party System
Comparing American Voices: The Cherokees Debate Removal to the Indian Territory
Reading American Pictures: Politics and the Press: Cartoonists Take Aim at Andrew Jackson
Voices from Abroad: Alexis de Tocqueville: Parties in the United States
11. Religion and Reform, 1820-1860
Individualism
Rural Communalism and Urban Popular Culture
Abolitionism
The Womens Rights Movement
Voices From Abroad: The Mystical World of the Shakers
Reading American Pictures: Looking for Clues in Art About Womens Sphere
Comparing American Voices: Saving the Nation From Drink
12. The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1820-1860
Creating the Cotton South
The African American World
Voices From Abroad: Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: The Racial Complexities of Southern Society
Reading American Pictures: How Did Slaves Live on Cotton Plantations?
Comparing American Voices: Slaves and Masters
13. The Crisis of the Union, 1844-1860
Manifest Destiny: South and North
War, Expansion, and Slavery, 1846-1850
The End of the Second Party System, 1850-1858
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Triumph, 1858-1860
Comparing American Voices: Civil Warfare in Kansas
Reading American Pictures: Marching from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Visualizing "Manifest Destiny"
Voices from Abroad: Salomon de Rothschild: A French Banker Analyzes the Election of 1860 and the Threat of Secession
14. Two Societies at War, 1861-1865
Secession and Military Stalemate, 1861-1862
Toward Total War
The Turning Point: 1863
The Union Victorious, 1864-1865
Comparing American Voices: Blacks and Whites Describe the End of Slavery
Reading American Pictures: What Do Photographs Tell Us About the Civil War?
Voices from Abroad: Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne: German Immigrants and the Civil War Within Missouri
15. Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
The Undoing of Reconstruction
Comparing American Voices: Freedom
Reading American Pictures: Why Sharecropping?
Voices from Abroad: David Macrae: The Devastated South
Part IV. A Maturing Industrial Society, 1877-1914
16. The American West
The Great Plains
The Far West
Comparing American Voices: Becoming White
Reading American Pictures: Uncovering the Culture of the Plains Indians
Voices from Abroad: Baron Joseph Alexander von HŸbner: A Western Boom Town
17. Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise, 1877-1900
Industrial Capitalism Triumphant
The World of Work
The Labor Movement
Comparing American Voices: Working Women
Reading American Pictures: The Killing Floor: Site of Americas Mass Production Revolution?
Voices from Abroad: Count Vay de Vaya und Luskod: Pittsburgh Inferno
18. The Industrial City: Building It, Living In It
Urbanization
Upper Class/Middle Class
City Life
Comparing American Voices: Coming to America: The Downside
Reading American Pictures: Challenging Female Delicacy: The New Woman
Voices from Abroad: Jose Mart: Coney Island, 1881
19. Politics in the Age of Enterprise, 1877-1896
The Politics of the Status Quo, 1877-1893
Politics and the People
Race and Politics in the New South
The Crisis of American Politics: The 1890s
Comparing American Voices: "Negro Domination!"
Reading American Pictures: Parties and People: How Democratic Was American Politics?
Voices from Abroad: Ernst Below: Beer and German American Politics
20. The Progressive Era, 1900-1914
The Course of Reform
Progressivism and National Politics
Comparing American Voices: The Triangle Fire
Reading American Pictures: Reining in Big Business? Cartoonists Join the Battle
Voices from Abroad: James Bryce: America in 1905: ÒBusiness Is King"
21. An Emerging World Power, 1877-1914
The Roots of Expansion
An American Empire
Onto the World Stage
Comparing American Voices: Debating the Philippines
Reading American Pictures: Imperial Dilemmas
Voices from Abroad: Jean Hess, Emile Zola, and Ruben Dario: American Goliath
Part V. The Modern State and Society, 1914-1945
22. War and the American State, 1914-1920
Great War, 1914-1918
War on the Home Front
An Unsettled Peace, 1919-1920
Comparing American Voices: The Great Migration
Reading American Pictures: ÒOver Here": Womens Wartime Opportunities
Voices from Abroad: A German Propaganda Appeal to Black Soldiers
23. Modern Times, 1920-1932
Business-Government Partnership of the 1920s
A New National Culture
Redefining American Identity
The Onset of the Great Depression
Comparing American Voices: The Scopes Trial
Reading American Pictures: Patrolling the Texas Border
Voices from Abroad: Mary Agnes Hamilton: Breadlines and Beggars
24. Redefining Liberalism: The New Deal, 1933-1939
The New Deal Takes Over, 1933-1935
The Second New Deal, 1935-1938
The New Deals Impact on Society
Comparing American Voices: Ordinary People Respond to the New Deal
Reading American Pictures: Interpreting the Public Art of the New Deal
Voices from Abroad: Odette Keun: A Foreigner Looks at the Tennessee Valley Authority
25. The World at War, 1939-1945
The Road to War
Organizing for Victory
Life on the Home Front
Fighting and Winning the War
Comparing American Voices: Women in the Wartime Workplace
Reading American Pictures: "U.S. Political Propaganda on the Homefront during World War II"
Voices from Abroad: Monica Itoi Sone: Japanese Relocation
Part VI. The Age of Cold War Liberalism, 1945-1980
26. Cold War America, 1945-1960
The Cold War
Cold War Liberalism
"Modern Republicanism"
Comparing American Voices: Hunting Communists and Liberals
Reading American Pictures: Why a Cold War Space Race?
Voices from Abroad: Jean Monnet: Trumans Generous Proposal
27. The Age of Affluence, 1945-1960
Economic Powerhouse
The Affluent Society
The Other America
Comparing American Voices: Challenging White Supremacy
Reading American Pictures: The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
Voices from Abroad: Hanoch Bartov: Everyone Has a Car
28. The Liberal Consensus: Flaming Out, 1960-1968
John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Expectation
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society
Into the Quagmire, 1960-1968
Coming Apart
1968: A Year of Shocks
Comparing American Voices: The Toll of War
Reading American Pictures: War and its Aftermath: Images of the Vietnam Conflict, 1968 and 1982
Voices from Abroad: Che Guevara: Vietnam and the World Freedom Struggle
29. Towards a Conservative America: The 1970s
The Nixon Years
Battling for Civil Rights: The Second State
Lean Years
Politics in the Wake of Watergate
Comparing American Voices: Debating the Equal Rights Amendment
Reading American Pictures: A Near-Meltdown at Three Mile Island, 1979
Voices from Abroad: Fei Xiaotong: Americas Crisis of Faith
Part VII. Entering a New Era: Conservatism, Globalization, Terrorism, 1980-2006
30. The Reagan Revolution and the End of the Cold War, 1980-2001
The Rise of Conservatism
The Reagan Presidency, 1981-1989
The Defeat of Communism and the Rise of a New World Order
The Clinton Presidency, 1993-2001
Comparing American Voices: Christianity and Public Life
Reading American Pictures: Image Warfare: Fighting to Define the Reagan Presidency
Voices from Abroad: Zhu Shida: China and the United States: A Unique Relationship
31. A Dynamic Economy, A Divided People, 1980-2000
America in a Global Economy and Society
New Technology
Culture Wars
Comparing American Voices: Cheap Labor: Immigration and Globalization
Reading American Pictures: The Abortion Debate Hits the Streets
Voices from Abroad: A U.S. Epidemic
32. Into the Twenty-First Century
The Advent of George W. Bush
American Hegemony Challenged
Unfinished Business
Comparing American Voices: The Stem Cell Research Controversy
Reading American Pictures: Conservatism at a Crossroads
Voices from Abroad: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: A Strategy for the Iraq Insurgency