List of Maps

Preface

Part One / A NEW WORLD

1 THE COLLISION OF CULTURES

1. Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations
2. First Contacts
3. Exploration and Conquest of the New World
4. Christian Europe

2 BRITAIN AND ITS COLONIES

1. Settling The Chesapeake
2. Settling New England
3. Indians In New England
4. Renewed Settlement
5. Settling The Middle Colonies And Georgia
6. Thriving Colonies

3 COLONIAL WAYS OF LIFE

1. The Shape Of Early America
2. Society And Economy In The Southern Colonies
3. Society And Economy In New England
4. Society And Economy In The Middle Colonies
5. Colonial Cities
6. The Enlightenment
7. The Great Awakening

4 THE IMPERIAL PERSPECTIVE

1. English Administration Of The Colonies
2. The Habit Of Self-Government
3. Troubled Neighbors
4. The Colonial Wars

5 FROM EMPIRE TO INDEPENDENCE

1. The Heritage Of War
2. Western Lands
3. Grenville And The Stamp Act
4. Fanning The Flames
5. Discontent On The Frontier
6. A Worsening Crisis
7. Shifting Authority
8. Independence

Part Two / BUILDING A NATION

6 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

1. 1776: Washington's Narrow Escape
2. American Society At War
3. 1777: Setbacks For The British
4. 1778: Both Sides Regroup
5. The War In The South
6. Negotiations
7. The Political Revolution
8. The Social Revolution
9. The Emergence Of An American Culture

7 SHAPING A FEDERAL UNION

1. The Confederation
2. Adopting The Constitution
3. "A More Perfect Union"

8 THE FEDERALIST ERA

1. A New Nation
2. Hamilton's Vision
3. The Republican Alternative
4. Crises Foreign And Domestic
5. Settlement Of New Land
6. Transfer Of Power
7. The Adams Years

9 THE EARLY REPUBLIC

1. Jeffersonian Simplicity
2. Jefferson In Office
3. Divisions In The Republican Party
4. War In Europe
5. The War Of 1812

Part Three / AN EXPANSIVE NATION

10 NATIONALISM AND SECTIONALISM

1. Economic Nationalism
2. "Good Feelings"
3. Crises And Compromises
4. Judicial Nationalism
5. Nationalist Diplomacy
6. One-Party Politics

11 THE JACKSONIAN IMPULSE

1. A New Political Culture
2. Jackson Takes Office
3. Nullification
4. Racial Prejudice In The Jacksonian Era
5. The Bank Controversy
6. Contentious Politics
7. Van Buren And The New Party System
8. Assessing The Jackson Years

12 THE DYNAMICS OF GROWTH

1. Agriculture And The National Economy
2. Transportation, Communication, And The Market Revolution
3. The Industrial Revolution
4. The Popular Culture
5. Immigration
6. Organized Labor
7. Jacksonian Inequality

13 AN AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : RELIGION, ROMANTICISM, AND REFORM

1. Rational Religion
2. The Second Great Awakening
3. Romanticism In America
4. The Flowering Of American Literature
5. Education
6. Antebellum Reform

14 MANIFEST DESTINY

1. The Tyler Years
2. The Western Frontier
3. Moving West
4. Annexing Texas
5. Polk's Presidency
6. The Mexican War

Part Four / A HOUSE DIVIDED AND REBUILT

15 THE OLD SOUTH

1. The Distinctive Features Of The Old South
2. White Society In The South
3. Black Society In The South
4. The Culture Of The Southern Frontier
5. Anti-Slavery Movements

16 THE CRISIS OF UNION

1. Slavery In The Territories
2. The Compromise Of 1850
3. Foreign Adventures
4. The Kansas-Nebraska Crisis
5. The Deepening Sectional Crisis
6. The Center Comes Apart

17 THE WAR OF THE UNION

1. End Of The Waiting Game
2. The War's Early Course
3. Emancipation
4. The War Behind The Lines
5. Government During The War
6. The Faltering Confederacy
7. The Confederacy's Defeat
8. A Modern War

18 RECONSTRUCTION : NORTH AND SOUTH

1. The War's Aftermath
2. The Battle Over Reconstruction
3. Reconstructing The South
4. The Reconstructed South
5. The Grant Years

Part Five / GROWING PAINS

19 THE SOUTH AND THE WEST TRANSFORMED

1. The New South
2. The New West

20 BIG BUSINESS AND ORGANIZED LABOR

1. The Rise Of Big Business
2. Entrepreneurs
3. Labor Conditions And Organization
4. A Nation Transformed

21 THE EMERGENCE OF URBAN AMERICA

1. America's Move To Town
2. The New Immigration
3. Popular Culture
4. Education And The Professions
5. Realism In Thought, Culture, And Literature
6. Realism in Fiction And Nonfiction
7. The Social Gospel
8. Early Efforts At Urban Reform

22 GILDED AGE POLITICS AND AGRARIAN REVOLT

1. Paradoxical Politics
2. Corruption And Reform: Hayes To Harrison
3. The Farm Problem And Agrarian Protest Movements
4. The Economy And The Silver Solution
5. A New Era

Part Six / MODERN AMERICA

23 AN AMERICAN EMPIRE

1. Toward The New Imperialism
2. Expansion In The Pacific
3. The War Of 1898
4. Imperial Rivalries In East Asia
5. Big-Stick Diplomacy

24 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

1. Elements Of Reform
2. Features Of Progressivism
3. Roosevelt's Progressivism
4. Roosevelt's Second Term
5. From Roosevelt To Taft
6. Wilson's Progressivism
7. Limits Of Progressivism

25 AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR

1. Wilson And Foreign Affairs
2. An Uneasy Neutrality
3. America's Entry Into The War
4. America At War
5. The Fight For The Peace
6. Lurching From War To Peace

26 THE MODERN TEMPER

1. Reaction In The Twenties
2. The Roaring Twenties
3. The Culture Of Modernism

27 REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE AND DECLINE

1. "Normalcy"
2. The New Era
3. President Hoover, Engineer

28 NEW DEAL AMERICA

1. From Hooverism To The New Deal
2. Recovery Through Regulation
3. The Social Cost Of The Depression
4. Culture In The Thirties
5. The Second New Deal
6. Roosevelt's Second Term
7. The Legacy Of The New Deal

29 FROM ISOLATION TO GLOBAL WAR

1. Postwar Isolationism
2. War Clouds
3. The Storm In Europe
4. The Storm In The Pacific

30 THE SECOND WORLD WAR

1. America's Early Battles
2. Mobilization At Home
3. Social Effects Of The War
4. The Allied Drive Toward Berlin
5. Leapfrogging To Tokyo
6. A New Age Is Born
7. The Final Ledger

Part Seven / THE AMERICAN AGE

31 THE FAIR DEAL AND CONTAINMENT

1. Demobilization Under Truman
2. The Cold War
3. Civil Rights During The 1940s
4. The Cold War Heats Up

32 THROUGH THE PICTURE WINDOW : SOCIETY AND CULTURE, 1945-1960

1. People Of Plenty
2. A Conforming Culture
3. Cracks In The Picture Window
4. A Paradoxical Era

33 CONFLICT AND DEADLOCK : THE EISENHOWER YEARS

1. "Time For A Change"
2. Eisenhower's "Hidden-Hand" Presidency
3. Foreign Intervention
4. Reelection And Foreign Crises
5. Festering Problems Abroad
6. The Early Years Of The Civil Rights Movement
7. Assessing The Eisenhower Presidency

34 NEW FRONTIERS : POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE 1960s

1. The New Frontier
2. Expansion Of The Civil Rights Movement
3. Foreign Frontiers
4. Lyndon Johnson And The Great Society
5. From Civil Rights To Black Power
6. The Tragedy Of Vietnam
7. Sixties Crescendo

35 REBELLION AND REACTION IN THE 1960s AND 1970s

1. The Roots Of Rebellion
2. Nixon And Vietnam
3. Nixon And Middle America
4. Nixon Triumphant
5. Watergate
6. An Unelected President
7. The Carter Interregnum

36 A CONSERVATIVE INSURGENCY

1. The Reagan Revolution
2. Reagan's First Term
3. Reagan's Second Term
4. The Bush Administration

37 TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY : AMERICA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

1. America's Changing Mosaic
2. Cultural Conservatism
3. Bush To Clinton
4. Domestic Policy In Clinton's First Term
5. Republican Insurgency
6. The Clinton Years At Home
7. Foreign-Policy Challenges
8. The Election Of 2000
9. Compassionate Conservatism
10. Global Terrorism
11. Second-Term Blues
12. A Historical Election
13. The First One Hundred Days

GLOSSARY

APPENDIX

1. The Declaration Of Independence
2. Articles Of Confederation
3. The Constitution Of The United States
4. Amendments To The Constitution
5. Presidential Elections
6. Admission Of States
7. Population Of The United States
8. Immigration To The United States, Fiscal Years 1820-2008
9. Immigration By Region And Selected Country Of Last Residence, Fiscal Years 1820-2008
10. Presidents, Vice Presidents, And Secretaries Of State

FURTHER READINGS

CREDITS

INDEX