Single Volume Edition contents. Volume I contains Chapters 1-16. Volume II contains Chapters 16-33.
Prologue: Beginnings.
1. Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas.
American Lives: Tisquantum.
2. American Society in the Making.
American Lives: Benjamin Franklin and John Adams.
Reviewing the Past: The Crucible.
3. America in the British Empire.
American Lives: Eunice Williams/Gannenstenkawi.
4. The American Revolution.
Reviewing the Past: The Patriot.
5. The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant.
Mapping the Past: East Versus West: Political Conflict in the New Nation.
6. Jeffersonian Democracy.
Mapping the Past: Lewis and Clark.
7. National Growing Pains.
Mapping the Past:Early Sectional Tensions.
8. Toward a National Economy.
Mapping the Past: The Making of a Working Class.
9. Jacksonian Democracy.
American Lives: Horace Greeley.
10. The Making of Middle-Class America.
American Lives: Fertility on the Frontier.
11. A Democratic Culture.
American Lives: Sojourner Truth.
12. Expansion and Slavery.
Mapping the Past: Causes of Irish Immigration.
13. The Sections Go Their Ways.
Reviewing the Past: Amistad.
14. The Coming of the Civil War.
Mapping the Past:Abolitionists and Runaways.
15. The War to Save the Union.
Reviewing the Past: Glory.
16. Reconstruction and the South.
Mapping the Past: The Politics ofReconstruction.
17. In the Wake of War.
American Lives: Clement Vann Rogers and George William Norris.
18. An Industrial Giant.
Mapping the Past: Railroads, Canals, and Economic Growth: Were the Railroads Indispensable to Economic Growth?
19. American Society in the Industrial Age.
American Lives: The Steltzles and the Smiths.
20. Intellectual and Cultural Trends.
Reviewing the Past: Titanic.
21. Politics: Local, State, and National.
Mapping the Past: The Rise of Populism.
22. The Age of Reform.
Mapping the Past: The Woman's Suffrage Campaign.
23. From Isolation to Empire.
American Lives: Frederick Funston.
24. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War.
American Lives: Harry. S. Truman.
25. Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment.
Mapping the Past: The Making of Black Harlem.
26. The New Era: 1921-1933.
Mapping the Past: The Dust Bowl on the Great Plains.
27. The New Deal: 1933-1941.
Mapping the Past: FDR's Political Triumph.
28. War and Peace.
Reviewing the Past: Saving Private Ryan.
29. The American Century.
Mapping the Past: White Fight.
30. From Camelot to Watergate.
Reviewing the Past: Thirteen Days.
31. Society in Flux.
Mapping the Past: Race Riots of the 1960s.
32. Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed.
American Lives: Bill Gates.
33. Misdemeanors and High Crimes.
Mapping the Past: America's Hispanics.
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