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Chapter Index : Parts : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Part 1 - A New World

1: Discovery and Settlement
2: Colonial Ways of Life
3: The Imperial Perspective
4: From Empire to Independence

 

Part 2 - Building a Nation

5: The American Revolution
6: Shaping a Federal Union
7: The Federalists: Washington and Adams
8: Republicanism: Jefferson and Madison
9: Nationalism and Sectionalism

 

Part 3 - An Expansive Nation

10: The Jacksonian Impulse
11: The Dynamics of Growth
12: An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism and Reform
13: Manifest Destiny

 

Part 4 - A House Divided and Rebuilt

14: The Old South: An American Tragedy
15: The Crisis of Union
16: The War of the Union
17: Reconstruction: North and South

 

Part 5 - Growning Pains

18: New Frontiers: South and West
19: Big Business and Organized Labor
20: The Emergence of Urban America
21: Gilded-Age Politics and Agrarian Revolt

 

Part 6 - Modern America

22: An American Empire
23: The Progressive Era
24: America and the Great War
25: The Modern Temper
26: Republican Resurgence and Decline
27: New Deal America
28: From Isolation to Global War
29: The Second World War

 

Part 7 - The America Age

30: The Fair Deal and Containment
31: Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture, 1945-1960
32: Conflict and Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years
33: New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s
34: Rebellion and Reaction in the 1960s and 1970s
35: Conservative Insurgency
36: Cultural Politics

 

 

 

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