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| Illustrations and Maps | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The M.E. Sharpe Student Learning Center | |
| Introduction: The Genesis of America | |
| The History of History | |
| American History as a Flowing Current | |
| Conceived in Liberty: The Story Behind the Story | |
| The Peopling of America | |
| Becoming American | |
| Prelude to Rebellion | |
| Defining the American Dream, July 2, 1776: The Declaration of Independence and the Forging of a New Nation | |
| Implementing the American Dream | |
| The Critical Period: The Economy of Impotence | |
| America Reinvents Itself | |
| The Evolution of the Two-Party System: Balancing Freedom and Power | |
| Foreign Affairs of the Federalist Era | |
| By-Products of Jay's Treaty | |
| Undeclaring War, February 18, 1799: Navigating Neutrality and the Ramifications of the Pursuit of Peace | |
| Inherited Problems: Friction with France | |
| From Hawk to Dove: The Shifting Priorities of President Adams | |
| Decision Day and Its Aftermath | |
| Long-Term Ramifications: The Ascendancy of Republicanism | |
| Other By-Products of Peace: The Louisiana Purchase | |
| America in Search of Respect: The Limits of Neutrality | |
| Struggling for Survival, September 13, 1814: The Battle of Baltimore and the Emergence of American Nationalism | |
| Mr. Madison's War | |
| The Treaty of Ghent: America's Christmas Gift of 1814 | |
| The Battle of New Orleans | |
| The Legacy of the War of 1812 | |
| Politics of the Era of Good Feelings | |
| From Good Feelings to Bad: The Revival of Political Strife | |
| The Inauguration of Andrew Jackson, March 4, 1829: America Enters the Age of the Common Man | |
| Day of Destiny: Partying with Andrew Jackson | |
| Jackson's Ascendancy and the Emergence of Modern America | |
| Democracy in the Age of Jackson | |
| Jackson: Symbol of the Common Man | |
| Dispositions of a Commoner: The Peggy Eaton Affair | |
| Nullifying the Nullifiers | |
| Executive Leadership and the Expansion of Presidential Powers | |
| Jacksonian Democracy without Jackson | |
| In the Name of Manifest Destiny, May 9, 1846: The War with Mexico and the Acquisition of the American West | |
| The Causes of the Mexican War: The Story of Texas | |
| Debating Annexation: U.S. Relations with the Republic of Texas | |
| Problems with Britain: The Oregon Question | |
| Brinkmanship with Mexico: The Slidell Mission | |
| Decision Day: May 9, 1846 | |
| Immediate Consequences: Congress Declares War | |
| The Mexican War: Military and Diplomatic Affairs | |
| War and Peace: The Trist Mission and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
| Long-Term Consequences: TheBenefits and Costs of the War with Mexico | |
| A Nation Divides, April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter and the Era of the American Civil War | |
| The Road to Disunion | |
| The Immediate Aftermath: The American Civil War | |
| From Saving the Union to Abolishing Slavery | |
| Long-Term Consequences: Reconstructing the Nation | |
| Bumps on the Road to Reunion | |
| Presidential Bargaining, February 26, 1877: The Compromise of 1877 and the Price of National Unity | |
| Prelude to Compromise: The Politics of Reconstruction | |
| The Wormley House Agreement: February 26, 1877 | |
| Immediate Consequences: The Inauguration and Administration of Hayes | |
| Long-Term Consequences: Reunion and the Rise of the New South | |
| Jim Crow and the Limits of Southern Progress | |
| The Emerging Industrial North: Immigration and Urbanization | |
| Party Politics: Choosing Between Tweedledee and Tweedledum | |
| Whether Golden or Gilded, America Comes of Age | |
| The Sinking of the Maine, February 15, 1898: The Spanish- American War and the Emergence of America as a World Power | |
| Brewing Troubles in China | |
| Consequences of the Spanish-American War | |
| Roosevelt, Progressivism, and Progressive Foreign Diplomacy | |
| From Progressivism to World War | |
| Waging War and Peace: Ending the War to End All Wars | |
| The Silencing of Woodrow Wilson, September 25, 1919: Peace, Normalcy and the Rise of American Isolationism | |
| Negotiating the Treaty of Versailles | |
| Wilson's Last Speech: September 25, 1919 | |
| The Convalescence of of President Wilson | |
| Returning to Normalcy: The Election of 1920 | |
| The Leave-Me-Alone Decade: America in the Twenties | |
| The Politics of Prosperity | |
| Hoover, the Great Depression, and the Coming of the New Deal | |
| The Day of Infamy, December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor and the Transformation of the Modern World | |
| The End of Isolationism | |
| Dr. New Deal Gives Way to Dr. Win the War | |
| The Buck Stops Here: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman | |
| Cold War Politics | |
| Liking Ike in the Happy Days of Death Valley | |
| From Sputnik to Camelot | |
| A Nation Mourns, November 22, 1963: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the End of American Innocence | |
| The Legend of Camelot | |
| Foreign Concerns: Cuba and Vietnam | |
| Dallas, Texas: November 22, 1963 | |
| The Political Consequences of Kennedy's Death | |
| The Whiplash of Backlash: America in Troubled Times | |
| The Election of 1968 and the Return of Richard Nixon | |
| Watergate and the Fall of a President | |
| America Taken Hostage, November 4, 1979: The Iranian Hostage Crisis and the Restructuring of the World Order | |
| Energy and the Stagflated Economy | |
| Jimmy Carter: Humble, Humanitarian, and Hard to Know | |
| The Crisis of Confidence of 1979 | |
| A Nation Held Hostage: The Aftermath of the Student Takeover | |
| Standing Tall: Ronald Reagan and the Rise of the New Right | |
| Second-Term Troubles and Successes | |
| George Bush and the Ebb Tide of Republican Ascendancy | |
| Bill Clinton and the Politics of the Nasty Nineties | |
| The Twin Legacies of President Clinton | |
| Terrorists Stun America, September 11, 2001: Negotiating Security and Liberty in the Twenty-first Century | |
| Tracing the Sources of Hate | |
| Politics in the New Millennium | |
| From Disunity to Unity and Back Again: The Attack and Its Aftermath | |
| Singing the Second-Term Blues | |
| Looking through the Past into the Future | |
| Map of the United States | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| The Constitution of the United States | |
| Admission of States | |
| Area and Population of the United States: 1790-2006 | |
| Presidential Elections | |
| Party Affiliations in Congress, 1789-Present | |
| Statistics of Major U.S. Wars | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| About the Authors | |
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