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Chapter 1 - 'Men Prone to Wonder': America Before 1600 Chapter 2 - The European Settlement of North America: The Atlantic Coast to 1660 Chapter 3 - Empires: 1660-1702 Chapter 4 - Benjamin Franklin's World: Colonial North America, 1702-1763 Chapter 5 - Toward Independence, 1764-1783 Chapter 6 - Inventing the American Republic: The States Chapter 7 - Inventing the American Republic: The Nation Chapter 8 - Establishing the New Nation Chapter 9 - The Fabric of Change, 1800-1815 Chapter 10 - A New Epoch: 1815-1828 Chapter 11 - Political Innovation in a Mechanical Age: 1828-1840 Chapter 12 - Worker Worlds in Antebellum America Chapter 13 - The Benevolent Empire: Religion and Reform, 1825-1846 Chapter 14 - National Expansion, Sectional Division: 1839-1850 Chapter 15 - A House Dividing: 1851-1860 Chapter 16 - Civil War: 1861-1865 Chapter 17 - Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Chapter 18 - The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870-1900 Chapter 19 - An Industrial Society: 1870-1910 Chapter 20 - Politics, Industrialism, and the State: 1876-1900 Chapter 21 - A New Place in the World: 1865-1914 Chapter 22 - The Progressive Era Chapter 23 - War, Prosperity, and the Metropolis: 1914-1929 Chapter 24 - The New Deal Chapter 25 - Whirlpool of War Chapter 26 - Fighting for Freedom Chapter 27 - From Hot War to Cold War Chapter 28 - Korea, Eisenhower, and Affluence Chapter 29 - Renewal of Reform Chapter 30 - Years of Rage Chapter 31 - Conservative Revival Chapter 32 - The Reagan Revolution Chapter 33 - Inventing a New Order
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"Washington, George, the Virginia Colonel (3/4 length)"

"George Washington. Copy of painting by Gilbert Stuart"

Popular heroic national image of Washington

"Gen. Lafayette with Washington, Mount Vernon"

George Washington's home at Mount Vernon (Aquatint by Francis Jukes)

Birds-Eye View of Mount Vernon (lithograph by Thomas S. Sinclair, based on the original engraving by H. Whateley), ca. 1859

"Aerial View of Mt. Vernon and the Potomac River"

Plate 1 from Jethro Tull's "Horse Hoeing Husbandry," 1733

Cover page, Thomas Hale's "Compleat Body of Husbandry," 1758

"Libert. Conclusion de la Campagne de 1781 en Virginie. To his Excellency General George Washington this Likeness of his friend, the Marquess de la Fayette, is humbly dedicated." Copy of engraving by Nol le Mire, 1780s

"The Washington Family." Painting by Edward Savage, 1796

"The Life of George Washington: The Farmer," engraving by Claude Regnier after a painting by Junius Brutus Stearns, ca. 1853

Detail of View of Mount Vernon from the Northeast, (painting by Edward Savage) ca. 1792

Slave Quarters from Mount Vernon

"Washington, Mrs. George (Martha) (bust)"

 

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