American Stories

<h2>Brief Contents</h2> <div class="c-no-headers-number-list_container"> <ol> <li>New World Encounters: Preconquest–1608</li> <li>England's New World Experiments, 1607–1732</li> <li>Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society, 1619–1692</li> <li>Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America, 1680–1763</li> <li>The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763–1783</li> <li>The Republican Experiment, 1783–1788</li> <li>Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788–1800</li> <li>Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision, 1800–1814</li> <li>Nation Building and Nationalism, 1815–1825</li> <li>The Triumph of White Men's Democracy, 1824–1840</li> <li>Slaves and Masters, 1793–1861</li> <li>The Pursuit of Perfection, 1800–1861</li> <li>An Age of Expansionism, 1830–1861</li> <li>The Sectional Crisis, 1846–1861</li> <li>Secession and the Civil War, 1860–1865</li> <li>The Agony of Reconstruction, 1865–1877</li> <li>The West: Exploiting an Empire, 1849–1902</li> <li>The Industrial Society, 1850–1901</li> <li>Toward an Urban Society, 1877–1900</li> <li>Political Realignments, 1876–1901</li> <li>Toward Empire, 1865–1902</li> <li>The Progressive Era, 1895–1917</li> <li>From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism, 1900–1920</li> <li>The Nation at War, 1901–1920</li> <li>Transition to Modern America, 1919–1928</li> <li>Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1929–1939</li> <li>America and the World, 1921–1945</li> <li>The Onset of the Cold War, 1945–1960</li> <li>Affluence and Anxiety, 1945–1960</li> <li>The Turbulent Sixties, 1960–1968</li> <li>To a New Conservatism, 1969–1988</li> <li>Into the Twenty-First Century, 1989–2016</li> </ol> <p>Volume I includes chapters 1–16; Volume II includes chapters 16–32.</p> </div>