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| List of Maps, Tables, and Figures | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Preface | |
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| A New World | |
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| Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660 | |
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| Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750 | |
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| Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763 | |
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| The American Revolution, 1763-1783 | |
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| The Revolution Within Founding a Nation, 1783-1789 | |
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| Securing the Republic, 1790-1815 | |
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| The Market Revolution, 1800-1840 | |
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| Democracy in America, 1815-1840 | |
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| The Peculiar Institution | |
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| An Age of Reform, 1820-1840 | |
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| A House Divided, 1840-1861 | |
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| A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War,1861-1865 | |
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| 'What Is Freedom?': Reconstruction,1865-1877 | |
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| America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890 | |
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| Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad,1890-1900 | |
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| The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 | |
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| Safe for Democracy | |
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| The United States and World War I, 1916-1920 | |
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| From Business Culture to Great Depression | |
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| The Twenties, 1920-1932 | |
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| The New Deal, 1932-1940 | |
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| Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945 | |
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| The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 | |
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| An Affluent Society, 1953-1960 | |
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| The Sixties, 1960-1968 | |
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| The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988 | |
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| Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989-2000 | |
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| September 11 and the Next American Century | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| The Constitution of the United States (1787) | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |