From Colony to Superpower

Introduction 
 1. "To Begin the World Over Again": Foreign Policy and the Birth of the Republic, 1776-1778 
 2. "None Who Can Make Us Afraid": The New Republic in a Hostile World, 1789-1801 
 3. "Purified as by Fire": Republicanism Challenged and Reaffirmed, 1801-1815 
 4. "Leave the Rest to Us": The Assertive Republic, 1815-1837 
 5. "A Dose of Arsenic": Slavery, Expansionism, and the Road to Disunion, 1837-1861 
 6. "Last Best Hope": The Union, the Confederacy, and Civil War Diplomacy, 1861-1877 
 7. "A Good Enough England": Foreign Relations in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893 
 8. The War of1898 and the Dawn of the American Century, 1893-1901 
 9. "Bursting with Good Intentions": The United States in World Affairs, 1901-1913 
 10. "A New Age": Wilson, the Great War, and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1913-1921 
 Epilogue 
 Bibiliographic Essay