Volume I includes Chapters 1-16. Volume II includes Chapters 16-31. Each chapter opens with an American Story, vignette and contains Recovering the Past.
I. A COLONIZING PEOPLE, 1492-1776.
1. Ancient American and Africa. 2. Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas. 3. Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century. 4. The Maturing of Colonial Society. 5. The Strains of Empire. II. A REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE, 1775-1828.
6. A People in Revolution. 7. Consolidating the Revolution. 8. Creating a Nation. 9. Society and Politics in the Early Republic. III. AN EXPANDING PEOPLE, 1820-1877.
10. Economic Transformations in the Northeast and the Old Northwest. 11. Slavery and the Old South. 12. Shaping America in the Antebellum Age. 13. Moving West. 14. The Union in Peril. 15. The Union Severed. 16. The Union Reconstructed. IV. AN INDUSTRIALIZING PEOPLE, 1865-1900.
17. Rural America: The West and the New South. 18. The Rise of Smokestack America. 19. Politics and Reform. 20. Becoming a World Power. V. A MODERNIZING PEOPLE, 1900-1945.
21. The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism. 22. The Great War. 23. Affluence and Anxiety. 24. The Great Depression and the New Deal. 25. World War II. VI. A RESILIENT PEOPLE, 1945-2002.
26. Postwar Growth at Home, 1945 - 1960. 27. Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945 - 1960. 28. Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960 - 1969. 29. Disorder and Discontent, 1969 - 1980. 30. The Revival of Conservatism, 1980 - 1992. 31. The Post-Cold War World. Appendix. The Declararation of Independece.
The Constitution of the United States of America.
Presidential Elections.
States of the United States.
Population of the United States.
Index. 