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America's History for the AP® Course

Tenth  Edition©2021  Rebecca Edwards; Eric Hinderaker; Robert O. Self; James A. Henretta

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PART 1 Transformations of North America, 1491–1700

1 Colliding Worlds, 1491–1600

2 American Experiments, 1521–1700

PART 2 British North America and the Atlantic World, 1607–1763

3 The British Atlantic World, 1607–1750 78

4 Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720–1763

PART 3 Revolution and Republican Culture, 1754–1800

5 The Problem of Empire, 1754–1776

6 Making War and Republican Governments, 1776–1789

7 Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787–1820

PART 4 Overlapping Revolutions, 1800–1848

8 Economic Transformations, 1800–1848

9 A Democratic Revolution, 1800–1848

10 Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820–1848

11 Imperial Ambitions, 1820–1848

PART 5 Consolidating a Continental Union, 1844–1877

12 Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844–1861

13 Bloody Ground: The Civil War, 1861–1865

14 Reconstruction, 1865–1877

15 Conquering a Continent, 1860–1890

PART 6 Industrializing America: Upheavals and Experiments, 1877–1917

16 Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877–1911

17 Making Modern American Culture, 1880–1917

18 "Civilization’s Inferno": The Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1800–1917

19 Whose Government? Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880–1917

PART 7 Global Ambitions and Domestic Turmoil, 1890–1945

20 An Emerging World Power, 1890–1918

21 Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919–1932

22 Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929–1938

23 The World at War, 1937–1945

PART 8 The Modern State and the Age of Liberalism, 1945–1980

24 The Cold War Dawns, 1945–1963

25 Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945–1963

26 The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973

27 Liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961–1972

28 The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973–1980

PART 9 Globalization and the End of the American Century, 1980 to the Present

29 Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980–1991

30 National and Global Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

Rebecca Edwards

Rebecca Edwards is Eloise Ellery Professor of History at Vassar College, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century politics, the Civil War, the frontier West, and women, gender, and sexuality. She is the author of, among other publications, Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era; New Spirits: Americans in the “Gilded Age,” 1865–1905; and the essay “Women's and Gender History” in The New American History. She is currently working on a book about the role of childbearing in the expansion of America's nineteenth-century empire.

Eric Hinderaker

Eric Hinderaker is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, military-civilian relations in the Atlantic world, and comparative colonization. His most recent book, Boston's Massacre, was awarded the Cox Book Prize from the Society of the Cincinnati and was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. His other publications include Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800; The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, which won the Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History from the New York Academy of History; and, with Peter C. Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.

Robert O. Self

Robert O. Self is Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of American History at Brown University. His research focuses on urban history, American politics, and the post-1945 United States. He is the author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, which won four professional prizes, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. He is currently at work on a book about the centrality of houses, cars, and children to family consumption in the twentieth-century United States.

James Henretta

James A. Henretta  is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught Early American History and Legal History. His publications include “Salutary Neglect”: Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle; Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600–1820; and The Origins of American Capitalism. His most recent publication is a long article, “Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America,” in The Cambridge History of American Law.