Spain, France, and the Netherlands --
Gentlemen in the wilderness --
Radicals in the wilderness --
Traders in the wilderness --
Printers, painters, and preachers --
The great war for empire --
The rejection of empire --
The American Revolution: politics and people --
The American Revolution: Howe's war.
Pt. 2. The American Revolution: Washington's war --
Creating the Constitution --
Republicans and federalism --
The Jeffersonian reaction --
The disastrous War of 1812 --
A nation announcing itself --
National republican follies.
Pt. 3. The second great awakening --
The military chieftain --
The politics of distrust --
Southern society and the defense of slavery --
Whose Manifest Destiny? --
Pt. 4. Sectional tensions escalate --
Drifting toward disaster --
The first year of fighting --
Shifting tides of battle --
Diplomatic clashes and sustaining the war --
Behind the lines: politics and economies --
African Americans in wartime --
The Union drive to victory --
Presidential reconstruction --
Congress takes command --
Pt. 5. Industrialization --
Transcontinental railroads --
Farming the Great Plains --
African Americans after Reconstruction --
Religion in Victorian America --
Theodore Roosevelt and Progressivism.
Pt. 6. Mass production --
World War I: the road to intervention --
World War I: Versailles and Wilson's gambit --
The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression --
World War II: the road to Pearl Harbor --
World War II: the European theater --
World War II: the Pacific theater --
The Korean War and McCarthyism --
Pt. 7. The Civil Rights Movement --
The New Frontier and the Great Society --
The rise of mass media --
Religion in twentieth century America --
Carter and the Reagan Revolution --
Clinton's America and the millennium --
