To The Student: Why Study History?Analyzing Historical Sources.1. When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe.2. The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America.3. England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion.4.

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent.5. Reform, Resistance, Revolution.6. The Revolutionary Republic.7. Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815.8.

Northern Transformations, 1790-1850.9. The Old South, 1790-1850.10. Toward an American Culture.11. Whigs and Democrats.12.

Antebellum Reform.13. Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty--or Slavery?14. The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860.15. Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862.16. A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865.

17. Reconstruction, 1863-1877.18. A Transformed Nation: The West and the New South, 1865-1900.19. The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914.20. Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920.

21. Progressivism.22. Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917.23. War and Society, 1914-1920.24. The 1920s.

25. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939.26. America during the Second World War.27. The Age of Containment, 1946-1953.28. Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963.

29. America during Its Longest War, 1963-1974.30. Uncertain Times, 1974-1992.31. Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century.32. A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2011.