1 A New World 2 Beginnings of English America, 1607–1660 3 Creating Anglo-America, 1660–1750 4 Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire, to 1763 5 The American Revolution, 1763–1783Ħ The Revolution Within 7 Founding a Nation, 1783–1789 8 Securing the Republic, 1790–1815 9 The Market Revolution, 1800–1840 10 Democracy in America, 1815–1840 11 The Peculiar Institution 12 An Age of Reform, 1820–1840 13 A House Divided, 1840–1861 14 A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861–1865 15 “What Is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865–1877 16 America’s Gilded Age, 1870–1890 17 Freedom’s Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900 18 The Progressive Era, 1900–1916 19 Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920 20 From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932 21 The New Deal, 1932–1940 22 Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941–1945 23 The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953 24 An Affluent Society, 1953–1960 25 The Sixties, 1960–1968 26 The Triumph of Conservatism, 1969–1988 27 Globalization and Its Discontents, 1989–2000 28 September 11 and the Next American Century