Table Of Content1. Worlds Apart. 2. Transplantation, 1600-1685. 3. The Creation of New Worlds. 4. Convergence and Conflict, 1660s-1763. 5. Imperial Breakdown, 1763-1774. 6. The War for Independence, 1774-1783. 7. The First Republic, 1776-1789. 8. A New Republic and the Rise of the Parties, 1789-1800. 9. The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800-1824. 10. The Jacksonian Era, 1824-1845. 11. Slavery and the Old South, 1800-1860. 12. The Market Revolution and Social Reform, 1815-1850. 13. The Way West. 14. The Politics of Sectionalism, 1846-1861. 15. Battle Cries and Freedom Songs: The Civil War, 1861-1865. 16. Reconstruction, 1865-1877. Volume II 16. Reconstruction, 1865-1877. 17. A New South: Economic Progress and Social Tradition, 1877-1900. 18. Industry, Immigrants, and Cities, 1870-1900. 19. Transforming the West, 1865-1890. 20. Politics and Government, 1877-1900. 21. The Progressive Era, 1900-1917. 22. Creating an Empire, 1865-1917. 23. America and the Great War, 1914-1920. 24. Toward a Modern America: The 1920s. 25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939. 26. World War II, 1939-1945. 27. The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1946-1952. 28. The Confident Years, 1953-1964. 29. Shaken to the Roots, 1965-1980. 30. The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World, 1981-1992. 31. Complacency and Crisis, 1993-2003.
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