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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

Property and Democracy
The Dorr War
Tocqueville on Democracy
The Limits of Democracy
The Information Revolution
Women and the Public Sphere
A Racial Democracy
Race and Class
The American System
Banks and Money
The Panic of 1819
The Politics of the Panic
The Missouri Controversy
The Slavery Question
The Monroe Doctrine
The Election of 1824
The Nationalism of John Quincy Adams
"Liberty Is Power"
Martin Van Buren and the Democratic Party
The Election of 1828
The Party System
Democrats and Whigs
Public and Private Freedom
Politics and Morality
South Carolina and Nullification
Calhoun's Political Theory
The Nullification Crisis
Indian Removal
The Supreme Court and the Indians
Biddle's Bank
The Pet Banks and the Economy
The Panic of 1837
Van Buren in Office
The Election of 1840
His Accidency

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