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1 A New World
2 Beginnings of English America, 1607–1660
3 Creating Anglo-America, 1660–1750
4 Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire, to 1763
5 The American Revolution, 1763–1783
6 The Revolution Within
7 Founding a Nation, 1783–1789
8 Securing the Republic, 1790–1815
9 The Market Revolution, 1800–1840
10 Democracy in America, 1815–1840
11 The Peculiar Institution
12 An Age of Reform, 1820–1840
13 A House Divided, 1840–1861
14 A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861–1865
15 “What Is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865–1877
16 America’s Gilded Age, 1870–1890
17 Freedom’s Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900
18 The Progressive Era, 1900–1916
19 Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920
20 From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932
21 The New Deal, 1932–1940
22 Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945
23 The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953
24 An Affluent Society, 1953–1960
25 The Sixties, 1960–1968
26 The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969–1988
27 Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989–2000
28 September 11 and the Next American Century

The Triangular Trades
Africa and the Slave Trade
The Middle Passage
Chesapeake Slavery
Freedom and Slavery in the Chesapeake
Indian Slavery in Early Carolina
The Rice Kingdom
The Georgia Experiment
Slavery in the North
Becoming African-American
African-American Cultures
Resistance to Slavery
The Crisis of 1739–1741
British Patriotism
The British Constitution
The Language of Liberty
Republican Liberty
Liberal Freedom
The Right to Vote
Political Cultures
Colonial Government
The Rise of the Assemblies
Politics in Public
The Colonial Press
Freedom of Expression and Its Limits
The Trial of Zenger
The American Enlightenment
Religious Revivals
The Preaching of Whitefield
The Awakening's Impact
Spanish North America
The Spanish in California
The French Empire
The Middle Ground
The Seven Years' War
A World Transformed
Pontiac's Rebellion
The Proclamation Line
Pennsylvania and the Indians
Colonial Identities

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