A Political History of the USA: One Nation Under God

Introduction PART I: MAKING A STATE The European Impact in America, 1494-1676 North American Colonies, 1632-1732 The Colonies in the Empire, 1651-1774 War and Order, 1775-1787 PART II: CONSOLIDATING THE POWER OF THE STATE The Culture of Politics, 1788-1826 From Coexistence to Expansion, 1783-1832 Nationalism, Sectionalism, and Slavery, 1820-1861 Lincoln and the Civil War, 1858-1865 The Sections Integrated: South, West, and Northeast, 1865-1896 PART III: THE AMERICAN STATE AND THE WORLD The New Empire, 1890-1917 Progressive America, 1900-1920 The Crises of Progressive Capitalism, 1919-1933 The Cosmopolitan New Deal in Depression and War, 1933 -1945 Cold War America, 1945-1963 PART IV: PERSONAL POLITICS AND THE STATE The Long 1960s, 1954-1975 Cultural Divisions and Cultural Imperialism, 1968-2000 Epilogue: America in History, 2001 and After Critical Suggestions for Reading and Study Index