Chapter 1: Making a "New" World, to 1558

Chapter 2: A Continent on the Move, 1400-1725

Chapter 3: Founding the English Mainland Colonies, 1585-1732

Chapter 4: The English Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1763

Chapter 5: Deciding Where Loyalties Lie, 1763-1776

Chapter 6: Recreating America: Independence and a New Nation, 1775-1783

Chapter 7: Competing Visions of the Virtuous Republic, 1770-1796

Chapter 8: The Early Republic, 1796-1804

Chapter 9: Increasing Conflict and War, 1805-1815

Chapter 10: The Rise of a New Nation, 1815-1836

Chapter 11: The Great Transformation, 1828-1840

Chapter 12: Responses to the Great Transformation, 1828-1840

Chapter 13: Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny, 1841-1849

Chapter 14: Sectional Conflict and Shattered Union, 1850-1860

Chapter 15: A Violent Choice: Civil War, 1861-1865

Chapter 16: Reconstruction: High Hopes and Broken Dreams, 1865-1877

Chapter 17: Survival of the Fittest: Entrepreneurs and Workers in Industrial America, 1865-1900

Chapter 18: Conflict and Change in the West, 1865-1902

Chapter 19: The New Social Patterns of Gilded Age America, 1865-1900

Chapter 20: Political Stalemate and Political Upheaval, 1868-1900

Chapter 21: Becoming a World Power: America and World Affairs, 1865-1913

Chapter 22: The Progressive Era, 1900-1917

Chapter 23: America and the World, 1913-1920

Chapter 24: The 1920s

Chapter 25: From Good Times to Hard Times, 1920-1932

Chapter 26: The New Deal, 1933-194

Chapter 27: America's Rise to World Leadership, 1933-1945

Chapter 28: Truman and Cold War America, 1945-1952

Chapter 29: Quest for Consensus, 1952-1960

Chapter 30: Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960-1968

Chapter 31: America Under Stress, 1963-1975

Chapter 32: Facing Limits, 1974-1991

Chapter 33: Making New Choices, 1986-1997