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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Westward the Course (1492-1607) | |
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| Columbus: "The Christ Bearer" | |
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| The Scramble for Empire | |
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| The Rise of England | |
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| A City Upon a Hill (1607-1765) | |
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| Coming to America | |
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| The Great Migration | |
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| Expanding English Rule | |
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| Britain and France: Conflict for a Continent | |
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| Religious and Intellectual Awakenings | |
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| Britain and France: The Final Conflict | |
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| The Greatest Revolution (1765-1783) | |
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| Stamping Out Unfair Taxes | |
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| A Total Separation | |
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| "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" | |
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| A Continental War | |
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| The French Alliance | |
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| "The World Turned Upside Down" | |
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| A Dangerous Peace | |
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| Reflection and Choice: Framing the Constitution (1783-1789) | |
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| A Critical Period | |
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| "The Great Little Madison" | |
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| The Struggle for Ratification | |
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| The New Republic (1789-1801) | |
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| "The Sacred Fire of Liberty" | |
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| Madison's Bill of Rights | |
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| "A Host in Himself": Hamilton's New System | |
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| Hurricane Genet | |
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| A Long and Difficult Farewell | |
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| War, Peace, and Honest John Adams | |
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| The Revolution of 1800 | |
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| The Jeffersonians (1801-1829) | |
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| "An Empire for Liberty" | |
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| Lewis & Clark: "The Corps of Discovery" | |
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| Plots, Trials, and Treason | |
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| "A Splendid Misery": Jefferson's Last Years | |
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| "Mr. Madison's War" | |
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| The Battle of New Orleans | |
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| "An Era of Good Feeling" | |
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| The Missouri Compromise | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine | |
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| "A Corrupt Bargain": The Election of 1824 | |
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| "Is It the Fourth?": Adams and Jefferson Die | |
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| Jackson and Democracy (1829-1849) | |
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| From Caucus to Raucous: The Election of 1828 | |
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| The Peggy Eaton Affair | |
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| John C. Calhoun: The Cast-Iron Man | |
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| "Our Federal Union: It Must Be Preserved!" | |
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| The Tragedy of Indian Removal | |
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| Jackson's War on the Bank | |
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| "Old Man Eloquent" | |
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| "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!" | |
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| Great Harry of the West | |
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| Reannexing Texas and Reoccupying Oregon | |
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| "The Halls of Montezuma" | |
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| The Rising Storm (1849-1861) | |
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| California and The Compromise of 1850 | |
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| Railroads and Reform | |
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| "Bleeding Kansas" | |
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| Dred Scott | |
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| Lincoln Meets Douglas | |
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| John Brown and Harpers Ferry | |
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| The Election of 1860 | |
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| Freedom's Fiery Trial (1860-1863) | |
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| Secession Winter (1860-61) | |
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| Fort Sumter: The Circle of Fire | |
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| "A People's Contest": The Civil War Begins | |
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| "One War at a Time": The Trent Affair | |
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| 1862: "Year of Jubilee" | |
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| Emancipation: "Forever Free" | |
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| A New Birth of Freedom (1863-1865) | |
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| Gettysburg: The Confederacy's High-Water Mark | |
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| The Agony of Abraham Lincoln | |
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| "Long Abraham a Little Longer" | |
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| The Union Victorious | |
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| To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds (1865-1877) | |
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| Pass in Review | |
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| Thunder on the Borders: South and North | |
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| Reconstruction and Renewal | |
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| Impeachment | |
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| "Let Us Have Peace" | |
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| A Tragic Divorce in Freedom's Ranks | |
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| The Spirit of 1876 | |
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| A Dangerous Dispute | |
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| An Age More Golden than Gilded? (1877-1897) | |
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| A Gilded Age? | |
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| Reform, Roosevelts, and Reaction | |
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| Grover Cleveland: "Tell the Truth!" | |
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| The Golden Door | |
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| Winning the West | |
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| A Social Gospel | |
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| "A Cross of Gold" | |
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| "From the New World" | |
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| The American Dynamo-Shadowed by War (1897-1914) | |
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| "A Splendid Little War" | |
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| Rough Rider Politics | |
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| TR in the White House | |
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| TR and the Square Deal | |
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| Wielding the Big Stick | |
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| The Taft Interlude | |
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| Unsinkable, Unthinkable | |
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| A Bull Moose on the Loose: The Election of 1912 | |
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| Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom | |
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| "The Lights Are Going Out..." | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |