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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

Continental Expansion
The Mormons' Trek
The Mexican Frontier: New Mexico and California
The Texas Revolt
The Election of 1844
The Road to War
The War and Its Critics
Combat in Mexico
Race and Manifest Destiny
Redefining Race
Gold-Rush California
California and the Boundaries of Freedom
The Wilmot Proviso
The Free Soil Appeal
Crisis and Compromise
The Great Debate
The Fugitive Slave Issue
Douglas and Popular Sovereignty
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Northern Economy
The Rise and Fall of the Know-Nothings
The Free Labor Ideology
Bleeding Kansas and the Election of 1856
The Dred Scott Decision
The Decision's Aftermath
Lincoln and Slavery
The Lincoln-Douglas Campaign
John Brown at Harpers Ferry
The Rise of Southern Nationalism
The Democratic Split
The Nomination of Lincoln
The Election of 1860
The Secession Movement
The Secession Crisis
And the War Came

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