Description: 1. Discovery and Disaster: The Old World Meets the New. 2. The Founding of the English Colonies. 3. Culture and Society in Colonial America. 4. The American Revolution. 5. The Search for a Republican Order: From the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution. 6. The New Republic. 7. The Long Shadow of Andrew Jackson: Party Politics, 1815-1844. 8. Reordering American Society and Culture: 1825-1850. 9. Westward Expansion and the War with Mexico. 10. The "Peculiar Institution": Slavery and Society in the Antebellum South. 11. The Unraveling of the Union: 1848-1861. 12. The Civil War. 13. The Politics of Reconciliation, 1865-1877. 14. The Industrial Revolution. 15. Politics in the Age of Equilibrium. 16. The New Empire. 17. Progressivism: The Many Faces of Reform. 18. The End of Innocence: The United States and World War I. 19. The "New Era": 1919-1932. 20. Roosevelt's New Deal. 21. From Isolationism to Globalism: The United States and World War II. 22. The Origins of the Cold War. 23. The Fair Deal and the Second Red Scare. 24. The Eisenhower Era. 25. The Politics of Vision: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. 26. The Tragedy of American Liberalism: Lyndon Johnson, The Great Society, And Vietnam. 27. Continuity and Conflict: American Society, 1960-1975. 28. The Triumph of Conservatism. 29. Search for Identity: American Politics from Ford to Reagan. 30. A Rage for Change: America in the 1990s.

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