Worlds Apart | |
Native American Societies before 1492 | |
Paleo-Indians and the Archaic Period | |
The Development of Agriculture | |
Nonfarming Societies | |
Mesoamerican Civilizations | |
North America's Diverse Cultures | |
The Caribbean Islanders | |
West African Societies | |
Geographical and Political Differences | |
Family Structure and Religion | |
European Merchants in West Africa and the Slave Trade | |
Western Europe on the Eve of Exploration | |
The Consolidation of Political and Military Authority | |
Religious Conflict and the Protestant Reformation | |
Contact | |
The Lure of Discovery | |
Christopher Columbus and the Westward Route to Asia | |
The Spanish Conquest and Colonization | |
The Columbian Exchange | |
Cultural Perceptions and Misperceptions | |
Competition for a Continent | |
Early French Efforts in North America | |
English Attempts in the New World | |
Transplantation, 1600-1685 | |
The French in North America | |
The Quest for Furs and Converts | |
The Development of New France | |
The Dutch Overseas Empire | |
The Dutch East India Company | |
The West India Company and New Netherland | |
English Settlement in the Chesapeake | |
The Ordeal of Early Virginia | |
The Importance of Tobacco | |
Maryland: A Refuge for Catholics | |
Life in the Chesapeake Colonies | |
The Founding of New England | |
The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony | |
Massachusetts Bay Colony and Its Offshoots | |
Families, Farms, and Communities in Early New England | |
Competition in the Caribbean | |
Sugar and Slaves | |
A Biracial Society | |
The Restoration Colonies | |
Early Carolina: Colonial Aristocracy and Slave Labor | |
Pennsylvania: The Dream of Toleration and Peace | |
New Netherland Becomes New York | |
The Creation of New Worlds | |
Indians and Europeans | |
Indian Workers in the Spanish Borderlands | |
The Web of Trade | |
Displacing Native Americans in the English Colonies | |
Bringing Christianity to Native Peoples | |
After the First Hundred Years: Conflict and War | |
Africans and Europeans | |
Labor Needs and the Turn to Slavery | |
The Shock of Enslavement | |
African Slaves in the New World | |
African American Families and Communities | |
Resistance and Rebellion | |
European Laborers in Early America | |
A Spectrum of Control | |
New European Immigrants | |
Convergence and Conflict, 1660s-1763 | |
Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies | |
The Regulation of Trade | |
The Colonial Export Trade and the Spirit of Enterprise | |
The Import Trade and Ties of Credit | |
Becoming More Like Britain: The Growth of Cities and Inequality | |
The Transformation of Culture | |
Goods and Houses | |
Shaping Minds and Manners | |
Colonial Religion and the Great Awakening | |
The Colonial Political World | |
The Dominion of New England and the Limits of British Control | |
The Legacy of the Glorious Revolution | |
Diverging Politics in the Colonies and Great Britain | |
Expanding Empires | |
British Colonists in the Backcountry | |
The Spanish in Texas and California | |
The French along the Mississippi and in Louisiana | |
A Century of Warfare | |
Imperial Conflict and the Establishment of an American Balance of Power, 1689-1738 | |
King George's War Shifts the Balance, 1739-1754 | |
The French and Indian War, 1754-1760: A Decisive Victory | |
The Triumph of the British Empire, 1763 | |
Imperial Breakdown, 1763-1774 | |
Imperial Reorganization | |
British Problems | |
Dealing with the New Territories | |
The Status of Native Americans | |
Curbing the Assemblies | |
The Sugar and Stamp Acts | |
American Reactions | |
Constitutional Issues | |
Taxation and the Political Culture | |
Protesting the Taxes | |
The Aftermath of the Stamp Act Crisis | |
A Strained Relationship | |
Regulator Movements | |
The Townshend Crisis | |
Townshend's Plan | |
American Boycott | |
The Boston Massacre | |
The "Quiet Period" | |
The Boston Tea Party | |
The Intolerable Acts | |
The Road to Revolution | |
Protestantism and the American Response to the Intolerable Acts | |
The First Continental Congress | |
The Continental Association | |
Political Divisions | |
The War for Independence, 1774-1783 | |
The Outbreak of War and the Declaration of Independence, 1774-1776 | |
Mounting Tensions | |
The Loyalists' | |
Dilemma | |
British Coercion and Conciliation | |
The Battles of Lexington and Concord | |
The Second Continental Congress, 1775-1776 | |
Commander in Chief George Washington | |
Early Fighting: Massachusetts, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Canada | |
Independence | |
Religion, Virtue, and Republicanism | |
The Combatants | |
Professional Soldiers | |
Women in the Contending Armies | |
African-American Participation in the War | |
Native Americans and the War | |
The War in the North, 1776-1777 | |
Britain Hesitates: Crucial Battles in New York and New Jersey | |
The Year of the Hangman: Victory at Saratoga and Winter at Valley Forge | |
The War Widens, 1778-1781 | |
The United States Gains an Ally | |
Fighting on the Frontier and at Sea | |
The Land War Moves South | |
American Counterattacks | |
The American Victory, 1782-1783 | |
The Peace of Paris | |
The Components of Success | |
The War and Society, 1775-1783 | |
The Women's War | |
Effect of the War on African Americans | |
The War's Impact on Native Americans | |
Economic Disruption | |
The Price of Victory | |
The First Republic, 1776-1789 | |
The New Order of Republicanism | |
Defining the People | |
The State Constitutions | |
The Articles of Confederation | |
Problems at Home | |
The Fiscal Crisis | |
Economic Depression | |
The Economic Policies of the States | |
Congress and the West | |
Diplomatic Weaknesses | |
Impasse with Britain | |
Spain and the Mississippi River | |
Toward a New Union | |
The Road to Philadelphia | |
The Convention at Work | |
Overview of the Constitution The Struggle over Ratification | |
A New Republic and the Rise of the Parties, 1789-1800 | |
Washington's America | |
The Uniformity of New England | |
The Pluralism of the Mid-Atlantic Region | |
The Slave South and Its Backcountry | |
The Growing West | |
Forging a New Government | |
"Mr. President"and the Bill of Rights | |
Departments and Courts | |
Revenue and Trade | |
Hamilton and the Public Credit | |
Reaction and Opposition | |
The Emergence of Parties | |
The French Revolution | |
Securing the Frontier | |
The Whiskey Rebellion | |
Treaties with Britain and Spain | |
The First Partisan Election | |
The Last Federalist Administration | |
The French Crisis and the XYZ Affair | |
Crisis at Home | |
The End of the Federalists | |
The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800-1824 | |
Jefferson's Presidency | |
Reform at Home | |
The Louisiana Purchase | |
Florida and Western Schemes | |
Embargo and a Crippled Presidency | |
Madison and the Coming of War | |
The Failure of Economic Sanctions | |
The Frontier and Indian Resistance | |
Decision for War | |
The War of 1812 | |
Setbacks in Canada | |
Western Victories and British Offensives | |
The Treaty of Ghent and the Battle of New Orleans | |
The Era of Good Feelings | |
Economic Nationalism | |
Judicial Nationalism | |
Toward a Continental Empire | |
The Breakdown of Unity | |
The Panic of 1819 | |
The Missouri Compromise | |
The Election of 1824 | |
The Jacksonian Era, 1824-1845 | |
The Egalitarian Impulse | |
The Extension of White Male Democracy | |
The Popular Religious Revolt | |
The Rise of the Jacksonians | |
Jackson's Presidency | |
Jackson's Appeal | |
Indian Removal | |
The Nullification Crisis | |
The Bank War | |
Van Buren and Hard Times | |
The Panic of 1837 | |
The Independent Treasury | |
Uproar over Slavery | |
The Rise of the Whig Party | |
The Party Taking Shape | |
Whig Persuasion | |
The Election of 1840 | |
The Whigs in Power | |
Harrison and Tyler | |
The Texas Issue | |
The Election of 1844 | |
Slavery and the Old South, 1800-1860 | |
The Lower South | |
Cotton and Slaves | |
The Profits of Slavery | |
The Upper South | |
A Period of Economic Adjustment | |
The Decline of Slavery | |
Slave Life and Culture | |
Work Routines and Living Conditions | |
Families and Religion | |
Resistance | |
Free Society | |
The Slaveholding Minority | |
The White Majority | |
Free Black People | |
The Proslavery Argument | |
The Market Revolution and Social Reform, 1815-1850 | |
Industrial Change and Urbanization | |
The Transportation Revolution | |
Cities and Immigrants | |
The Industrial Revolution | |
Growing Inequality and New Classes | |
Reform and Moral Order | |
The Benevolent Empire | |
The Temperance Movement | |
Women's Role in Reform | |
Backlash against Benevolence | |
Institutions and Social Improvement | |
School Reform | |
Prisons, Workhouses, and Asylums | |
Utopian Alternatives | |
A Distinctly National Literature | |
Abolitionism and Women's Rights | |
Rejecting Colonization | |
Abolitionism | |
The Women's Rights MovementPolitical Antislavery | |
The Way West | |
The Agricultural Frontier | |
The Crowded East | |
The Old Northwest | |
The Old Southwest | |
The Frontier of the Plains Indians | |
Tribal Lands | |
The Fur Traders | |
The Oregon Trail | |
The Mexican Borderlands | |
The Peoples of the Southwest | |
The Americanization of Texas | |
The Push into California and the Southwest | |
Politics, Expansion, and War | |
Manifest Destiny | |
The Mexican War | |
The Politics of Sectionalism, 1846-1861 | |
Slavery in the Territories | |
The Wilmot Proviso | |
The Election of 1848 | |
The Gold Rush | |
The Compromise of 1850 | |
Response to the Fugitive Slave Act | |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
The Election of 1852 | |
Political Realignment | |
Young America's Foreign Misadventures | |
Stephen Douglas's Railroad Proposal | |
The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
"Bleeding Kansas" | |
Know-Nothings and Republicans: Religion and Politics | |
The Election of 1856 | |
The Dred Scott Case | |
The Lecompton Constitution | |
The Religious Revival of 1857-58 | |
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
The Road to Disunion | |
North-South Differences | |
John Brown's Raid | |
The Election of 1860 | |
Secession Begins | |
Presidential Inaction | |
Peace Proposals | |
Lincoln's Views on Secession | |
Fort Sumter: The Tug Comes | |
Battle Cries and Freedom Songs: The Civil War, 1861-1865 | |
Mobilization, North and South | |
War Fever | |
The North's Advantage in Resources | |
Leaders, Governments, and Strategies | |
The Early War, 1861-1862 | |
First Bull Run | |
The War in the West | |
Reassessing the War: The Human Toll | |
The War in the East | |
Turning Points, 1862-1863 | |
The Naval War and the Diplomatic War | |
Antietam | |
Emancipation | |
From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg | |
Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the West | |
The War Transforms the North | |
Wartime Legislation and Politics | |
The Northern Economy | |
Northern Women and the War | |
The Confederacy Disintegrates | |
Southern Politics | |
Southern Faith | |
The Southern Economy | |
Southern Women and the War | |
The Union Prevails, 1864-1865 | |
Grant's Plan to End the War | |
The Election of 1864 and Sherman's March | |
The Road to Appomattox and the Death of Lincoln | |
Reconstruction, 1865-1877 | |
White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865 | |
More than Freedom: African-American Aspirations in 1865 | |
Education | |
Forty Acres and a Mule" | |
Migration to Cities | |
Faith and Freedom | |
Federal Reconstruction, 1865-1870 | |
Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867 | |
Congressional Reconstruction, 1867-1870 | |
Southern Republican Governments 1867-1870 | |
Counter-Reconstruction, 1870-1874 | |
The Uses of Violence | |
Northern Indifference | |
Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872 | |
Economic Transformation | |
Redemption, 1874-1877 | |
The Democrats' | |
Violent Resurgence | |
The Weak Federal Response | |
The Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877 | |
The Memory of Reconstruction | |
The Failed Promise of Reconstruction | |
Modest Gains and Future Victories | |
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