America: A Concise History Book

Part One

THE CREATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, 1450–1763

1 THE EMERGENCE OF AN "ATLANTIC WORLD": EUROPE, AFRICA, AND AMERICA, 1450–1620

2 THE INVASION AND SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA, 1550–1700

3 CREATING A BRITISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA, 1660–1750

4 GROWTH AND CRISIS IN COLONIAL SOCIETY, 1720–1765

Part Two

THE NEW REPUBLIC, 1763–1820

5 TOWARD INDEPENDENCE: YEARS OF DECISION, 1763–1776

6 MAKING WAR AND REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENTS, 1776–1789

7 POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE NEW REPUBLIC, 1787–1820

8 CREATING A REPUBLICAN CULTURE, 1790–1820

Part Three

ECONOMIC REVOLUTION AND SECTIONAL STRIFE, 1820–1877

9 ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION, 1820–1860

10 A DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION, 1820–1844

11 RELIGION AND REFORM, 1820–1860

12 THE SOUTH EXPANDS: SLAVERY AND SOCIETY, 1800–1860

13 THE CRISIS OF THE UNION, 1844–1860

14 TWO SOCIETIES AT WAR, 1861–1865

15 RECONSTRUCTION, 1865–1877

Part Four

A MATURING INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, 1877–1914

16 THE AMERICAN WEST

17 CAPITAL AND LABOR IN THE AGE OF ENTERPRISE, 1877–1900

18 THE INDUSTRIAL CITY: BUILDING IT, LIVING IN IT

19 POLITICS IN THE AGE OF ENTERPRISE, 1877–1896

20 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1900–1914

21 AN EMERGING WORLD POWER, 1877–1914

Part Five

THE MODERN STATE AND SOCIETY, 1914–1945

22 WAR AND THE AMERICAN STATE, 1914–1920

23 MODERN TIMES, 1920–1932

24 REDEFINING LIBERALISM: THE NEW DEAL, 1933–1939

25 THE WORLD AT WAR, 1939–1945

Part Six

THE AGE OF COLD WAR LIBERALISM, 1945–1980

26 COLD WAR AMERICA, 1945–1960

27 THE AGE OF AFFLUENCE, 1945–1960

28 THE LIBERAL CONSENSUS: FLAMING OUT, 1960–1968

29 THE 1970s: TOWARD A CONSERVATIVE AMERICA

Part Seven

A DIVIDED NATION IN A DISORDERED WORLD, 1980-2008

30 THE REAGAN REVOLUTION AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR, 1980–2001

31 A DYNAMIC ECONOMY, A DIVIDED PEOPLE, 1980–2000

32 STUMBLING INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY