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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 | |