U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses.
The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492
Chapter 2: Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492-1650
Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500-1700
Chapter 4: Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660-1763
Chapter 5: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
Chapter 6: America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
Chapter 7: Creating Republican Governments, 1776-1790
Chapter 8: Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790-1815
Chapter 9: Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800-1850
Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820-1840
Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800-1850
Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860
Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820-1860
Chapter 14: Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s
Chapter 15: The Civil War, 1860-1865
Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Chapter 17: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
Chapter 18: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
Chapter 19: The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
Chapter 20: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
Chapter 21: Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
Chapter 22: Age of Empire: Modern American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
Chapter 23: Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
Chapter 24: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
Chapter 25: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
Chapter 26: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
Chapter 27: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
Chapter 28: Postwar Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
Chapter 29: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s
Chapter 30: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
Chapter 31: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
Chapter 32: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Appendix A: The Declaration of Independence
Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States
Appendix C: Presidents of the United States
Appendix D: United States Political Map
Appendix E: United States Topographical Map
Appendix F: United States Population Chart
Appendix G: Suggested Reading