U.S. history / senior contributing authors, P. Scott Corbett, Jay Precht, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Paul Vickery, Sylvie Waskiewicz

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492 -- Early globalization: the Atlantic world, 1492-1650 -- Creating new social orders: colonial societies, 1500-1700 -- Rule Britannia! the English Empire, 1660-1763 -- Imperial reforms and colonial protests, 1763-1774 -- America's war for independence, 1775-1783 -- Creating republican governments, 1776-1790 -- Growing pains: the new republic, 1790-1820 -- Industrial transformation in the North, 1800-1850 -- Jacksonian democracy, 1820-1840 -- A nation on the move: westward expansion, 1800-1860 -- Cotton is king: the antebellum South, 1800-1860 -- Antebellum idealism and reform impulses, 1820-1860 -- Troubled times: the tumultuous 1850s -- The Civil War, 1860-1865 -- The era of reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Go west young man! westward expansion, 1840-1900 -- Industrialization and the rise of big business, 1870-1900 -- The growing pains of urbanization, 1870-1900 -- Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 -- Leading the way: the progressive movement, 1890-1920 -- Age of empire: American foreign policy, 1890-1914 -- Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919 -- The jazz age: redefining the nation, 1919-1929 -- Brother, can you spare a dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932 -- Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941 -- Fighting the good fight in World War II, 1941-1945 -- Post-War prosperity and Cold War fears, 1945-1960 -- Contesting futures: America in the 1960s -- Political storms at home and abroad, 1968-1980 -- From Cold War to cultural wars, 1980-2000 -- The challenges of the twenty-first century -- Appendix A: The Declaration of Independence -- Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States -- Appendix C: Presidents of the United States of America -- Appendix D: United States political map -- Appendix E: United States topographical map -- Appendix F: United States population chart -- Appendix G: Further reading -- Answer key -- Index.

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. History, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economic diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.