Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures

Chapter 2: England’s Colonies

Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life

Chapter 4: From Colonies to States

Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776–1783

Chapter 6: Strengthening the New Nation

Chapter 7: The Early Republic, 1800–1815

Chapter 8: The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815–1850

Chapter 9: Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815–1828

Chapter 10: The Jacksonian Era, 1828–1840

Chapter 11: The South, Slavery, and King Cotton 1800 –1860

Chapter 12: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800 –1860

Chapter 13: Western Expansion, 1830–1848

Chapter 14: The Gathering Storm, 1848–1860

Chapter 15: The War of the Union, 1861–1865

Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Chapter 17: Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860 –1900

Chapter 18: The New South and the New West, 1865–1900

Chapter 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865–1900

Chapter 20: Seizing an American Empire,1865–1913

Chapter 21: The Progressive Era, 1890–1920

Chapter 22: America and the Great War, 1914–1920

Chapter 23: A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929

Chapter 24: The Reactionary Twenties

Chapter 25: The Great Depression, 1929–1939

Chapter 26: The Second World War, 1933–1945

Chapter 27: The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952

Chapter 28: Cold War America, 1950–1959

Chapter 29: New Frontiers, 1960–1968

Chapter 30: Rebellion and Reaction, the 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 31: A Conservative Realignment, 1977–1990

Chapter 32: Twenty-First Century America, 1993–present