Table of Contents 1. The Peopling and Unpeopling of America. 2. Plantations and Cities Upon a Hill, 1620-1700. 3. Provincial America in Upheaval, 1660-1760. 4. Breaking the Bonds of Empire, 1760-1775.
5. The Times That Tried Many Souls, 1775-1783. 6. Securing the Republic and Its Ideals, 1776-1789. 7. The Formative Decade, 1790-1800. 8. The Jeffersonians in Power, 1800-1815.
9. Nationalism, Economic Growth, and the Roots of Sectional Conflict, 1815-1824. 10. Power and Politics in Jackson's America. 11. America's First Age of Reform. 12. The Divided North, The Divided South.
13. Cultures Collide in the Far West. 14. The House Divided. 15. A Nation Shattered by Civil War, 1860-1865. 16. The Nation Reconstructed: North, South, and the West, 1865-1877.
Appendix. Credits. Index.