Index.

Part 1. Transformations of North America, 1491-1700 -- Colliding worlds, 1491-1600 -- American experiments, 1521-1700 -- Part 2. British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607-1763 -- The British Atlantic world, 1607-1750 -- Growth, diversity, and conflict, 1720-1763 -- Part 3. Revolution and Republican culture, 1754-1800 -- The problem of empire, 1754-1776 -- Making war and Republican governments, 1776-1789 -- Hammering out a federal republic, 1787-1820 -- Part 4. Overlapping revolutions, 1800-1848 -- Economic transformations, 1800-1848 -- A democratic revolution, 1800-1848 -- Religion, reform, and culture, 1820-1848 -- Imperial ambitions, 1820-1848 -- Part 5. Consolidating a continental union, 1844-1877 -- Sectional conflict and crisis, 1844-1861 -- Bloody ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Conquering a continent, 1860-1890 -- Part 6. Industrializing America: upheavals and experiments, 1877-1917 -- Industrial America: corporations and conflicts, 1877-1911 -- Making modern American culture, 1880-1917 -- "Civilization's inferno": the rise and reform of industrial cities, 1800-1917 -- Whose government? Politics, populists, and progressives, 1880-1917 -- Part 7. Domestic and global challenges, 1890-1945 -- An emerging world power, 1890-1918 -- Unsettled prosperity: from war to depression, 1919-1932 -- Managing the Great Depression, forging the New Deal, 1929-1938 -- The world at war, 1937-1945 -- Part 8. The modern state and the age of liberalism, 1945-1980 -- Cold War America, 1945-1963 -- Triumph of the middle class, 1945-1963 -- Walking into freedom land: the civil rights movement, 1941-1973 -- Uncivil wars: liberal crisis and conservative rebirth, 1961-1972 -- The search for order in an era of limits, 1973-1980 -- Part 9. Globalization and the end of the American century, 1980 to present -- Conservative America in the ascent, 1980-1991 -- Confronting global and national dilemmas, 1989 to the present.