Chapter 1 The Collision of Cultures in the Sixteenth Century 

Chapter 2 England and Its American Colonies, 1607–1732 

Chapter 3 Colonial Ways of Life, 1607–1750 

Chapter 4 From Colonies to States, 1607–1776 

Chapter 5 The American Revolution, 1776–1783 

Chapter 6 Creating a “More Perfect Union,” 1783–1800

Chapter 7 The Early Republic, 1800–1815 

Chapter 8 The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815–1850 

Chapter 9 Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815–1828 

Chapter 10 A New Democratic Era, 1828–1840

Chapter 11 The South and Slavery, 1800–1860 

Chapter 12 Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800–1860 

Chapter 13 Western Expansion and Southern Secession, 1830–1861 

Chapter 14 The War of the Union, 1861–1865 

Chapter 15 Reconstruction, 1865–1877 

Chapter 16 Big Business and Organized Labor, 1860–1900 

Chapter 17 Myths and Realities: The South and the West, 1865–1900

Chapter 18 Society and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865–1900 

Chapter 19 Seizing an American Empire, 1865–1913 

Chapter 20 The Progressive Era, 1890–1920 

Chapter 21 America and the Great War, 1914–1920 

Chapter 22 A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929 

Chapter 23 New Deal America, 1929–1939  

Chapter 24 The Second World War, 1933–1945  

Chapter 25 The Cold War and the Fair Deal, 1945–1952 

Chapter 26 Affluence and Anxieties, 1950–1959 

Chapter 27 New Frontiers, 1960–1968 

Chapter 28 Rebellion and Reaction, the 1960s and 1970s 

Chapter 29 Freedom and Individualism in 1980s America

Chapter 30 Twenty-First-Century America, 1993–Present