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Part I. American colonies to 1763 -- A new world -- Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660 -- Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750 -- Slavery, freedom, and the struggle for empire, to 1763 -- Part II. A new nation, 1763-1840 -- The American Revolution, 1763-1783 -- The revolution within -- Founding a nation, 1783-1791 -- Securing the republic, 1791-1815 -- The market revolution, 1800-1840 -- Democracy in America, 1815-1840 -- Part III. Slavery, freedom, and the crisis of the union, 1840-1877 -- The peculiar institution -- An age of reform, 1820-1840 -- A house divided, 1840-1861 -- A new birth of freedom: the Civil War, 1861-1865 -- "What is freedom?": reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Part IV. Toward a global presence, 1870-1920 -- America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890 -- Freedom's boundaries, at home and abroad, 1890-1900 -- The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 -- Safe for democracy: the United States and World War I, 1916-1920 -- Part V. Depression and wars, 1920-1953 -- From business culture to great depression: the twenties, 1920-1932 -- The New Deal, 1932-1940 -- Fighting for the four freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945 -- The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 -- Part VI. What kind of nation? 1953-2012 -- An affluent society, 1953-1960 -- The sixties, 1960-1968 -- The triumph of conservatism, 1969-1988 -- Globalization and its discontents, 1989-2000 -- A new century and new crises. |
