America : A Narrative History

Volume 1. Part One : A not-so-"new" world. The collision of cultures --
England's colonies --
Colonial ways of life --
From colonies to states --
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Part two : Building a nation. The American Revolution, 1776-1783 --
Strengthening the new nation --
The early republic, 1800-1815 --
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Part Three. An expanding nation. The emergence of a market economy, 1815-1850 --
Nationalism and sectionalism, 1815-1828 --
The Jacksonian era, 1828-1840 --
The South, slavery, and king cotton 1800-1860 --
Religion, romanticism, and reform, 1800-1860 --
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Part Four. A house divided and rebuilt. Western expansion, 1830-1848 --
The gathering storm, 1848-1860 --
The war of the union, 1861-1865 --
The era of reconstruction, 1865-1877 --
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Volume 2. The era of reconstruction, 1865-1877 --
Part 5. Growing pains. Business and labor in the industrial era, 1860-1900 --
The New South and the New West, 1865-1900 --
Political stalemate and rural revolt, 1865-1900 --
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Part Six : Modern America. Seizing an American empire, 1865-1913 --
The Progressive era, 1890-1920 --
America and the Great War, 1914-1920 --
A clash of cultures, 1920-1929 --
The reactionary twenties --
The Great Depression, 1929-1939 --
The Second World War, 1933-1945 --
Part Seven : The American age. The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945-1952 --
Cold War America, 1950-1959 --
A new frontier and a great society, 1960-1968 --
Rebellion and reaction, 1960s and 1970s --
Conservative revival, 1977-1990 --
Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present.