EARLY AMERICA
The First Americans Mound Builders and Pueblos Native American Cultures The First Europeans Early Settlements Jamestown Massachusetts New Netherland and Maryland Colonial-Indian Relations Second Generation of British Colonies Settlers, Slaves and Servants The Enduring Mystery of the Anasazi
THE COLONIAL PERIOD
New Peoples New England The Middle Colonies The Southern Colonies Society, Schools and Culture Emergence of Colonial Government The French and Indian War The Witches of Salem
THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE
A New Colonial System Stamp Act Taxation Without Representation Townshend Acts Samuel Adams Boston "Tea Party" The Coercive Acts The Revolution Begins Common Sense and Independence Defeats and Victories Franco-American Alliance The British Move South Victory and Independence Loyalists During the American Revolution
THE FORMATION OF A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
State Constitutions Articles of Confederation The Problem of Expansion Constitutional Convention Debate and Compromise Ratification and the Bill of Rights President Washington Hamilton vs. Jefferson Citizen Genet and Foreign Policy Adams and Jefferson Louisiana and Britain War of 1812 The Second Great Awakening
WESTWARD EXPANSION AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
Building Unity Extension of Slavery Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine Factionalism and Political Parties Nullification Crisis Battle of the Bank Whigs, Democrats and "Know-Nothings" Stirrings of Reform Women's Rights Westward Seneca Falls
Two Americas Lands of Promise Slavery and Sectionalism The Abolitionists Texas and War with Mexico The Compromise of 1850 A Divided Nation Lincoln, Douglas and Brown Secession and Civil War Western Advance, Eastern Stalemate Gettysburg to Appomattox With Malice Toward None Radical Reconstruction The End of Reconstruction Peace Democrats, Copperheads and Draft Riots
Technology and Change Carnegie and the Era of Steel Corporations and Cities Railroads, Regulations and the Tariff Revolution in Agriculture The Divided South The Last Frontier The Plight of the Indians Ambivalent Empire The Canal and the Americas United States and Asia
DISCONTENT AND REFORM
Agrarian Distress and the Rise of Populism The Struggles of Labor The Reform Impulse Roosevelt's Reforms Taft and Wilson A Nation of Nations
WAR, PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION
War and Neutral Rights United States Enters World War I The League of Nations Postwar Unrest The Booming 1920s Tensions Over Immigration Clash of Cultures The Great Depression
THE NEW DEAL AND WORLD WAR
Roosevelt and the New Deal Unemployment Agriculture Industry and Labor The Second New Deal A New Coalition Eve of World War II Japan, Pearl Harbor and War The War in North Africa and Europe The War in the Pacific The Politics of War War, Victory and the Bomb The Rise of Industrial Unions
POSTWAR AMERICA
Consensus and Change Cold War Aims Harry Truman's Leadership Origins of the Cold War Containment The Cold War in Asia and the Middle East Eisenhower and the Cold War The Cold War at Home The Postwar Economy: 1945-1960 The Fair Deal Eisenhower's Approach The Culture of the 1950s Origins of the Civil Rights Movement Desegregation
DECADES OF CHANGE
Kennedy and the New Frontier Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society Confrontation Over Cuba The Space Program The War in Vietnam Detente Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats The Ford Interlude The Carter Years Post-Vietnam Foreign Policy The Civil Rights Movement 1960-1980 The Women's Movement The Latino Movement The Native American Movement The Counter-Culture and Environmentalism
TOWARD THE 21ST CENTURY
A Society in Transition Conservatism and the Rise of Ronald Reagan The Economy in the 1980s Foreign Affairs U.S.-Soviet Relations Space Shuttle Iran-Contra and Black Monday The Presidency of George Bush Budgets and Deficits End to the Cold War The Gulf War Panama and Nafta 1992 Presidential Election Afterword A Nation of Immigrants Third-Party and Independent Candidates
