America:a narrative history David Emory Shi, George Brown Tindall.

Includes bibliographical references (pages A131-A164) and index.

Part one: A not-so "new" world -- The collision of cultures -- England's colonies -- Colonial ways of life -- From colonies to states -- Part two: Building a nation -- The American Revolution, 1776-1783 -- Strengthening the new nation -- The early republic, 1800-1815 -- Part three: An expanding nation -- The emergence of a market economy, 1815-1850 -- Nationalism and sectionalism, 1815-1828 -- The Jacksonian era, 1828-1840 -- The South and slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860 -- Religion, romanticism, and reform, 1800-1860 -- Part four: A house divided and rebuilt -- Western expansion, 1830-1848 -- The gathering storm, 1848-1860 -- The War of the Union, 1861-1865 -- The era of reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Part five: Growing pains -- Business and labor in the industrial era, 1860-1900 -- The new South and the new West, 1865-1900 -- Political stalemate and rural revolt, 1865-1900 -- Part six: Modern America -- Seizing an American empire, 1865-1913 -- The progressive era, 1890-1920 -- America and the Great War, 1914-1920 -- A clash of cultures, 1920-1929 -- The reactionary twenties -- The great depression, 1929-1939 -- The Second World War, 1933-1945 -- Part seven: The American age -- The Cold War and the fair deal, 1945-1952 -- Cold war America, 1950-1959 -- A new frontier and a great society, 1960-1968 -- Rebellion and reaction, 1960s and 1970s -- Conservative revival, 1977-1990 -- Twenty-first-century America, 1993-present.