Cover

Title Page

Copyright

BRIEF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

SPECIAL FEATURES

MAPS

PREFACE

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

PASSAGES Prehistory to 1763

1 Contact,Conflict,and Exchange in the Atlantic World,Prehistory to 1590

2 Colonization of North America,1590–1675

3 Crisis and Change,1675–1720

4 The Expansion of Colonial British America,1720–1763

PASSAGES 1764 to 1814

5 Wars for Independence,1764–1783

6 Toward a More Perfect Union,1783–1788

7 The Federalist Republic,1789–1799

8 The New Republic Faces a New Century,1800–1815

PASSAGES 1815 to 1855

9 Exploded Boundaries,1815–1828

10 The Years of Andrew Jackson,1829–1836

11 Panic and Boom,1837–1845

12 Expansion and Reaction,1846–1854

PASSAGES 1855 to 1877

13 Broken Bonds,1855–1861

14 Blood and Freedom,1861–1865

15 Reconstruction:Its Rise and Fall,1865–1877

PASSAGES 1877 to 1914

16 An Economy Transformed:The Rise of Big Business,1877–1887

17 Urban Growth and Farm Protest,1887–1893

18 A Troubled Nation Expands Outward,1893–1901

19 Progressivism:Agendas for Change,1901–1914

PASSAGES 1914 to 1933

20 Over There and Over Here:The Impact of World War I,1914–1920

21 The Age of Jazz and Mass Culture,1921–1927

22 The Great Depression,1927–1933

PASSAGES 1933 to 1960

23 The New Deal,1933–1939

24 The Second World War,1939–1945

25 Postwar America,1946–1953

26 The Eisenhower Years,1953–1960

PASSAGES 1960 to 2010

27 The Turbulent Years,1960–1968

28 Crisis of Confidence,1969–1980

29 From Reagan to Clinton,1981–2000

30 A Conservative Nation in a Globalizing World,2000–2010

APPENDIX

GLOSSARY

INDEX