Chapter 2: American Beginnings, 1607-1650
Chapter 3: Crisis and Expansion: North American Colonies, 1650-1750
Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763
Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1763-1783
Chapter 6: The Revolution Within
Chapter 7: Founding a Nation, 1783-1789
Chapter 8: Securing the Republic, 1790-1815
Chapter 9: The Market Revolution
Chapter 10: Democracy in America, 1815-1840
Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution
Chapter 12: An Age of Reform, 1820-1840
Chapter 13: A House Divided, 1840-1861
Chapter 14:A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865
Chapter 15:"What Is Freedom": Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Chapter 16: America's Gilded Age, 1870–1890
Chapter 17: Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900
Chapter 18: The Progressive Era, 1900–1916
Chapter 19: Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920
Chapter 20: From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932
Chapter 21: The New Deal, 1932–1940
Chapter 22: Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945
Chapter 23: The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953
Chapter 24: An Affluent Society, 1953–1960
Chapter 25: The Sixties, 1960–1968
Chapter 26: The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969–1988