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1 The Collision Of Cultures
2 Britain And Its Colonies
3 Colonial Ways Of Life
4 The Imperial Perspective
5 From Empire To Independence
6 The American Revolution
7 Shaping A Federal Union
8 The Federalist Era
9 The Early Republic
10 Nationalism And Sectionalism
11 The Jacksonian Impulse
12 The Dynamics Of Growth
13 An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, And Reform
14 Manifest Destiny
15 The Old South
16 The Crisis Of Union
17 The War Of The Union
18 Reconstruction: North And South
19 New Frontiers: South And West
20 Big Business And Organized Labor
21 The Emergence Of Urban America
22 Gilded-age Politics And Agrarian Revolt
23 An American Empire
24 The Progressive Era
25 America And The Great War
26 The Modern Temper
27 Republican Resurgence And Decline
28 New Deal America
29 From Isolation To Global War
30 The Second World War
31 The Fair Deal And Containment
32 Through The Picture Window: Society And Culture, 1945–1960
33 Conflict And Deadlock: The Eisenhower Years
34 New Frontiers: Politics And Social Change In The 1960s
35 Rebellion And Reaction In The 1960s And 1970s
36 A Conservative Insurgency
37 Triumph And Tragedy: America At The Turn Of The Century

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AMERICA’ S CHANGING MOSAIC
  • DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS
  • THE NEW IMMIGRANTS
  • THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION
CULTURAL CONSERVATISM
  • THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
BUSH TO CLINTON
  • RECESSION AND DOWNSIZING
  • THE THOMAS HEARINGS AND THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
  • REPUBLICAN TURMOIL
  • DEMOCRATIC RESURGENCE
DOMESTIC POLICY IN CLINTON’ S FIRST TERM
  • THE ECONOMY
  • HEALTH-CARE REFORM
  • MISTRUST OF GOVERNMENT AND THE MILITIA MOVEMENT
REPUBLICAN INSURGENCY
  • THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
  • LEGISLATIVE BREAKTHROUGH
  • THE 1996 CAMPAIGN
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRENDS OF THE 1990S
  • THE “NEW ECONOMY”
  • RACE INITIATIVES
  • THE SCANDAL MACHINE
FOREIGN-POLICY CHALLENGES
  • THE MIDDLE EAST
  • THE BALKANS
  • GLOBALIZATION
THE ELECTION OF 2000
COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM
  • THE SECOND BUSH PRESIDENCY
  • NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
  • EXPLOITING THE ENVIRONMENT
GLOBAL TERRORISM
  • SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: A DAY OF INFAMY
  • WAR ON TERRORISM
  • TERRORISM AT HOME
  • MIDDLE EAST TURMOIL
  • THE BUSH DOCTRINE
  • A SECOND GULF WAR
  • THE ELECTION OF 2004
SECOND-TERM BLUES
  • HURRICANE KATRINA
  • A STALLED PRESIDENCY

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