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PART 1 Transformations of North America, 1491–1700

1 Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600

2 American Experiments, 1521–1700

PART 2 British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763

3 The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750 78

4 Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763

PART 3 Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800

5 The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776

6 Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789

7 Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820

PART 4 Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848

8 Economic Transformations, 1800–1848

9 A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848

10 Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848

11 Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848

PART 5 Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877

12 Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1861

13 Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865

14 Reconstruction, 1865–1877

15 Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

PART 6 Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917

16 Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911

17 Making Modern American Culture, 1880–1917

18 Civilization’s Inferno: The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1800–1917

19 Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

PART 7 Global Ambitions and Domestic Turmoil, 1890–1945

20 An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918

21 Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919–1932

22 Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938

23 The World at War, 1937–1945

PART 8 The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980

24 The Cold War Dawns, 1945–1963

25 Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963

26 The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973

27 Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972

28 The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980

PART 9 Globalization and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present

29 Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991

30 National and Global Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present