U.S. History

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses.

The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Chapter 1: The Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492

Chapter 2: Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492-1650

Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500-1700

Chapter 4: Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660-1763

Chapter 5: Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774

Chapter 6: America's War for Independence, 1775-1783

Chapter 7: Creating Republican Governments, 1776-1790

Chapter 8: Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790-1815

Chapter 9: Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800-1850

Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy, 1820-1840

Chapter 11: A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800-1850

Chapter 12: Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860

Chapter 13: Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820-1860

Chapter 14: Troubled Times: The Tumultuous 1850s

Chapter 15: The Civil War, 1860-1865

Chapter 16: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Chapter 17: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900

Chapter 18: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900

Chapter 19: The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900

Chapter 20: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900

Chapter 21: Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920

Chapter 22: Age of Empire: Modern American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914

Chapter 23: Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919

Chapter 24: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929

Chapter 25: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932

Chapter 26: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941

Chapter 27: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945

Chapter 28: Postwar Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960

Chapter 29: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s

Chapter 30: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980

Chapter 31: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000

Chapter 32: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

Appendix A: The Declaration of Independence

Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States

Appendix C: Presidents of the United States

Appendix D: United States Political Map

Appendix E: United States Topographical Map

Appendix F: United States Population Chart

Appendix G: Suggested Reading