American Nation A History of the United States

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Single Volume Edition contents. Volume I contains Chapters 1-16. Volume II contains Chapters 16-33. Prologue: Beginnings. 1. Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas. American Lives: Tisquantum. 2. American Society in the Making. American Lives: Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. Reviewing the Past: The Crucible. 3. America in the British Empire. American Lives: Eunice Williams/Gannenstenkawi. 4. The American Revolution. Reviewing the Past: The Patriot. 5. The Federalist Era: Nationalism Triumphant. Mapping the Past: East Versus West: Political Conflict in the New Nation. 6. Jeffersonian Democracy. Mapping the Past: Lewis and Clark. 7. National Growing Pains. Mapping the Past: Early Sectional Tensions. 8. Toward a National Economy. Mapping the Past: The Making of a Working Class. 9. Jacksonian Democracy. American Lives: Horace Greeley. 10. The Making of Middle-Class America. American Lives: Fertility on the Frontier. 11. A Democratic Culture. American Lives: Sojourner Truth. 12. Expansion and Slavery. Mapping the Past: Causes of Irish Immigration. 13. The Sections Go Their Ways. Reviewing the Past: Amistad. 14. The Coming of the Civil War. Mapping the Past: Abolitionists and Runaways. 15. The War to Save the Union. Reviewing the Past: Glory. 16. Reconstruction and the South. Mapping the Past: The Politics of Reconstruction. 17. In the Wake of War. American Lives: Clement Vann Rogers and George William Norris. 18. An Industrial Giant. Mapping the Past: Railroads, Canals, and Economic Growth: Were the Railroads Indispensable to Economic Growth? 19. American Society in the Industrial Age. American Lives: The Steltzles and the Smiths. 20. Intellectual and Cultural Trends. Reviewing the Past: Titanic. 21. Politics: Local, State, and National. Mapping the Past: The Rise of Populism. 22. The Age of Reform. Mapping the Past: The Woman's Suffrage Campaign. 23. From Isolation to Empire. American Lives: Frederick Funston. 24. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War. American Lives: Harry. S. Truman. 25. Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment. Mapping the Past: The Making of Black Harlem. 26. The New Era: 1921-1933. Mapping the Past: The Dust Bowl on the Great Plains. 27. The New Deal: 1933-1941. Mapping the Past: FDR's Political Triumph. 28. War and Peace. Reviewing the Past: Saving Private Ryan. 29. The American Century. Mapping the Past: Heading North, West, or to the Suburbs. 30. From Camelot to Watergate. Reviewing the Past: Thirteen Days. 31. Society in Flux. Mapping the Past: Race Riots of the 1960s. 32. Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed. American Lives: Bill Gates. 33. Misdemeanors and High Crimes. Mapping the Past: America's Hispanics. Appendix.