Part I

Chapter 1: Men Prone to Wonder: America Before 1600

Chapter 2: The European Settlement of North America: The Atlantic Coast to 1660

Chapter 3: Empires (1660–1702)

Chapter 4: Benjamin Franklin’s World: Colonial North America (1702–1763)

Part II

Chapter 5: Toward Independence (1764–1783)

Chapter 6: Inventing the American Republic: The States (1776–1790)

Chapter 7: Inventing the American Republic: The Nation (1776–1788)

Chapter 8: Establishing the New Nation (1789–1800)

Chapter 9: The Fabric of Change (1800–1815)

Part III

Chapter 10: A New Epoch (1815–1828)

Chapter 11: Political Innovation in a Mechanical Age (1828–1840)

Chapter 12: Worker Worlds in Antebellum America

Chapter 13: The Age of Improvement: Religion and Reform (1825–1846)

Part IV

Chapter 14: National Expansion, Sectional Division (1839–1850)

Chapter 15: A House Dividing (1851–1860)

Chapter 16: Civil War (1861–1865)

Chapter 17: Reconstruction (1865–1877)

Part V

Chapter 18: The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry (1870–1900)

Chapter 19: An Industrial Society (1870–1910)

Chapter 20: Politics and the State (1876–1900)

Chapter 21: A New Place in the World (1865–1914)

Part VI

Chapter 22: The Progressive Era (1900–1916)

Chapter 23: The Great War (1914–1919)

Chapter 24: A Conservative Interlude: The 1920s

Chapter 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929–1940)

Part VII

Chapter 26: Whirlpool of War (1932–1941)

Chapter 27: Fighting for Freedom (1942–1945)

Chapter 28: A Troubled Peace (1945–1953)

Chapter 29: Eisenhower, Affluence, and Civil Rights (1954–1960)

Chapter 30: Reform, Rage, and Vietnam (1960–1968)

Part VIII

Chapter 31: Revival of Conservativism (1969–1980)

Chapter 32: “The Cold War is Over” (1981–1992)

Chapter 33: Innovations and Divisions in a Globalizing Society (1970–2000)

Chapter 34: The Politics of Division (1993–2001)

Chapter 35: At War Against Terror