LIST OF MAPS, TABLES, AND FIGURES ABOUT THE AUTHOR PREFACE A New World Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660 Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750 Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763 The American Revolution, 1763-1783 The Revolution Within Founding a Nation, 1783-1789 Securing the Republic, 1790-1815 The Market Revolution, 1800-1840 Democracy in America, 1815-1840 The Peculiar Institution An Age of Reform, 1820-1840 A House Divided, 1840-1861 A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War,1861-1865 'What Is Freedom?': Reconstruction,1865-1877 America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890 Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and Abroad,1890-1900 The Progressive Era, 1900-1916 Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916-1920 From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932 The New Deal, 1932-1940 Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941-1945 The United States and the Cold War, 1945-1953 An Affluent Society, 1953-1960 The Sixties, 1960-1968 The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969-1988 Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989-2000 September 11 and the Next American Century SUGGESTED READING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776) THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES (1787) GLOSSARY CREDITS INDEX