Part 1 Transformations of North America, 1491–1700

Chapter 1 Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600

Chapter 2 American Experiments, 1521–1700

Part 2 British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763

Chapter 3 The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750

Chapter 4 Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763

Part 3 Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800

Chapter 5 The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776

Chapter 6 Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789

Chapter 7 Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820

Part 4 Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848

Chapter 8 Economic Transformations, 1800–1848

Chapter 9 A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848

Chapter 10 Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848

Chapter 11 Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848

Part 5 Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877

Chapter 12 Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1861

Chapter 13 Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865

Chapter 14 Reconstruction, 1865–1877

Chapter 15 Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

Part 6 Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917

Chapter 16 Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911

Chapter 17 Making Modern American Culture, 1880–1917

Chapter 18 “Civilization’s Inferno”: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880–1917

Chapter 19 Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

Part 7 Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890–1945

Chapter 20 An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918

Chapter 21 Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919–1932

Chapter 22 Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938

Chapter 23 The World at War, 1937–1945

Part 8 The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980

Chapter 24 Cold War America, 1945–1963

Chapter 25 Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963

Chapter 26 Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973

Chapter 27 Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972

Chapter 28 The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980

Part 9 Globalization and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present

Chapter 29 Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991

Chapter 30 Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present