Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition - Eric Foner
Introduction to the First Edition - Eric Foner
Part I: Eras of the American Past
1. Beneficiaries of Catastrophe: The English Colonies in America - John M. Murin
2. The Revolutionary Generation: Ideology, Politics, and Culture in the Early Republic - Linda K. Kerber
3. Society, Politics, and the Market Revolution, 1815-1848 - Sean Wilentz
4. Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction - Eric Foner
5. Public Life in Industrial America, 1877-1917 - Richard L. McCormick
6. Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 - Alan Brinkley
7. America since 1945 - William H. Chafe
Part II: Major Themes in American Experience
8. Intellectual and Cultural History - Thomas Bender
9. Western History - Richard White
10. Social History - Alice Kessler-Harris
11. U.S. Women's History - Linda Gordon
12. The History of the Family and the History of Sexuality - Estelle B. Freedman
13. African-American History - Thomas C. Holt
14. American Labor History - Leon Fink
15. Ethnicity and Immigration - Thomas B. Shenton and Kevin Kenny
16. Liberty and Power: U.S. Diplomatic History, 1750-1945 - Walter LaFeber
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