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Prologue: Ancient America: Before 1492 Chapter 1: Europeans and the New World, 1492-1600 Chapter 2: The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700 Chapter 3: The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1700 Chapter 4: Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701-1770 Chapter 5: The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754-1775 Chapter 6: The War for America, 1775-1783 Chapter 7: Building a Republic, 1775-1789 Chapter 8: The New Nation Takes Form, 1789-1800 Chapter 9: Republican Ascendancy, 1800-1824 Chapter 10: The Expanding Republic, 1815-1840 Chapter 11: The Free North and West, 1840-1860 Chapter 12: The Slave South, 1820-1860 Chapter 13: The House Divided, 1846-1861 Chapter 14: The Crucible of War, 1861-1865 Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1863-1877 Chapter 16: American on the Move: The West and the City, 1870-1900 Chapter 17: Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1895 Chapter 18: America Through the Eyes of the Workers, 1870-1890 Chapter 19: Fighting for Change in the Turbulent Nineties, 1890-1900 Chapter 20: Progressive Reform from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890-1916 Chapter 21: The United States and the "Great War," 1914-1920 Chapter 22: From New Era to Great Depression, 1920-1932 Chapter 23: The New Deal Era, 1932-1939 Chapter 24: The United States and the Second World War, 1939-1945 Chapter 25: Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945-1953 Chapter 26: The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952-1960 Chapter 27: A Decade of Rebellion and Reform, 1960-1968 Chapter 28: Vietnam and the Limits of Power, 1961-1975 Chapter 29: Retreat from Liberalism, 1968-2000 Chapter 30: The End of the Cold War and Rise of the Global Economy, 1975-2000

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