Founding the new nation: New world beginnings 33,000 B.C.-A.D. 1769; Planting of English America, 1500-1733; Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700; American life in the seventeenth century, 1607-1692; Colonial society on the eve of revolution, 1700-1775; Dual for North America, 1608-1763; Road to revolution, 1763-1775; America secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783
Building the new nation: Confederation and constitution, 1776-1790; Launching the new ship of state 1789-1800; Triumphs and travails of Jeffersonian democracy, 1800-1812; Second war for independence and the upsurge of nationalism, 1812-1824; Rise of Jacksonian democracy, 1824-1830; Jacksonian democracy at flood tide, 1830-1840; Forging the national economy, 1790-1860; Ferment of reform and culture, 1790-1860
Testing the new nation: South and the slavery controversy 1793-1860; Manifest destiny and its legacy, 1841-1848; Renewing the sectional struggle, 1848-1854; Drifting toward disunion, 1854-1861; Girding for war, the North and the South, 1861-1865; Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865; Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
