America's History, For the AP® Course
Eighth EditionJames A. Henretta; Eric Hinderaker; Rebecca Edwards; Robert O. Self
©2014Table of Contents
Brief Contents Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Skills for AP® U.S. History Part 1: Transformations of North America, 1450-1700 Chapter 1: Colliding Worlds, 1450–1600 Chapter 2: American Experiments, 1521-1700 Part 2: British North America and the Atlantic World, 1660-1763 Chapter 3: The British Atlantic World, 1660-1750 Chapter 4: Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763 Part 3: Revolution and Republican Culture, 1763-1820 Chapter 5: The Problem of Empire, 1763-1776 Chapter 6: Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789 Chapter 7: Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820 Chapter 8: Creating a Republican Culture, 1790–1820 Part 4: Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1860 Chapter 9: Transforming the Economy, 1800–1860 Chapter 10: A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1844 Chapter 11: Religion and Reform, 1800–1860 Chapter 12: The South Expands: Slavery and Society, 1800–1860 Part 5: Creating and Preserving a Continental Nation, 1844-1877 Chapter 13: Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis, 1844–1860 Chapter 14: Two Societies at War, 1861–1865 Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1865–1877 Chapter 16: Conquering a Continent, 1854-1890 Part 6: Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877-1917 Chapter 17: Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911 Chapter 18: The Victorians Make the Modern, 1880–1916 Chapter 19: "Civilization’s Inferno:" The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880–1917 Chapter 20: Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917 Part 7: Domestic and Global Challenges, 1890-1945 Chapter 21: An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918 Chapter 22: Cultural Conflict, Bubble, and Bust, 1919–1932 Chapter 23: Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1939 Chapter 24: The World at War, 1937–1945 Part 8: The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945-1980 Chapter 25: Cold War America, 1945–1963 Chapter 26: Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963 Chapter 27: Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973 Chapter 28: Uncivil Wars: Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972 Chapter 29: The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980 Part 9: Global Capitalism and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present Chapter 30: Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991 Chapter 31: Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present