A people and a nation : A history of the United States / by Mary Beth Norton and David M. Katzman

Contents I. The meeting of old world and ne. --2. Europeans colonize North America. --3. American society takes shape. --4. Growth and diversity. --5. Severing the bonds of empire. --6. A revolution indeed. --7. Forging a national republic. --8. Politics and society in the early republic. --9. The empire of liberty. --10. Rails, markets and mills. --11. Slavery and the growth of the south. --12. Among strangers and friends. --13. Reform, politics and expansion. --14. Slavery and America's future. --15. Transforming fire. --16. Reconstruction. --17. The transformation of the west and South. --18. The machine age. --19. The vitality and turmoil of urban life. --20. Gilded age politics. --21. The progressive Era. --22. The quest for empire. --23. Americans at war. --24. The new Era of the 1920s. --25. The great depression and the new deal. --26. Foreign relations in a broken world. --27. The second world war at home and abroad. --28. Cold war politics, McCarthyism and civil rights. --29. The cold war era. --30. American society during the postwar boom. --31. Contesting Nationalism and revolution. --32. Reform and conflict. --33. A turn to the right. --34. Anew century beckons.