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| Maps | p. xviii |
| History through Film | p. xix |
| To the Student: Why Study History? | p. xx |
| Preface | p. xxii |
| When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe | p. 1 |
| Peoples in Motion | p. 1 |
| From Beringia to the Americas | p. 1 |
| Chronology | p. 2 |
| The Great Extinction and the Rise of Agriculture | p. 3 |
| The Norsemen | p... MORE |
| Europe and the World by the 15th Century | p. 6 |
| China: The Rejection of Overseas Expansion | p. 6 |
| Europe versus Islam | p. 7 |
| The Legacy of the Crusades | p. 8 |
| The Unlikely Pioneer: Portugal | p. 9 |
| Africa, Colonies, and the Slave Trade | p. 10 |
| Portugal's Asian Empire | p. 13 |
| Early Lessons | p. 13 |
| Spain, Columbus, and the Americas | p. 14 |
| Columbus | p. 14 |
| Spain and the Caribbean | p. 16 |
| The Emergence of Complex Societies in the Americas | p. 17 |
| The Rise of Sedentary Cultures | p. 17 |
| The Andes: Cycles of Complex Cultures | p. 19 |
| Inca Civilization | p. 21 |
| Mesoamerica: Cycles of Complex Cultures | p. 21 |
| The Aztecs and Tenochtitlan | p. 25 |
| North American Mound Builders | p. 26 |
| Urban Cultures of the Southwest | p. 23 |
| Contact and Cultural Misunderstanding | p. 29 |
| Religious Dilemmas | p. 29 |
| War as Cultural Misunderstanding | p. 31 |
| Gender and Cultural Misunderstanding | p. 31 |
| Conquest and Catastrophe | p. 32 |
| The Conquest of Mexico and Peru | p. 32 |
| North American Conquistadores and Missionaries | p. 34 |
| The Spanish Empire and Demographic Catastrophe | p. 35 |
| Brazil | p. 37 |
| Global Colossus, Global Economy | p. 37 |
| Explanations: Patterns of Conquest, Submission, and Resistance | p. 39 |
| Conclusion | p. 41 |
| The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America | p. 43 |
| The Protestant Reformation and the Challenge to Spain | p. 43 |
| Chronology | p. 44 |
| New France | p. 45 |
| Early French Explorers | p. 45 |
| Missions and Furs | p. 46 |
| New France under Louis XIV | p. 47 |
| The Dutch and Swedish Settlements | p. 49 |
| History Through Film Black Robe | p. 50 |
| The East and West India Companies | p. 51 |
| New Netherland as a Pluralistic Society | p. 52 |
| Swedish and English Encroachments | p. 52 |
| The Challenge from Elizabethan England | p. 53 |
| The English Reformation | p. 53 |
| Hawkins and Drake | p. 54 |
| Gilbert, Ireland, and America | p. 54 |
| Ralegh, Roanoke, and War with Spain | p. 55 |
| The Swarming of the English | p. 56 |
| The Chesapeake and West Indian Colonies | p. 58 |
| The Jamestown Disaster | p. 58 |
| Reorganization, Reform, and Crisis | p. 59 |
| Tobacco, Servants, and Survival | p. 60 |
| Maryland | p. 62 |
| Chesapeake Family Life | p. 63 |
| The West Indies and the Transition to Slavery | p. 65 |
| The Rise of Slavery in North America | p. 66 |
| The New England Colonies | p. 68 |
| The Pilgrims and Plymouth | p. 68 |
| Covenant Theology | p. 69 |
| Massachusetts Bay | p. 70 |
| Puritan Family Life | p. 71 |
| Conversion, Dissent, and Expansion | p. 71 |
| Congregations, Towns, and Colony Governments | p. 73 |
| Infant Baptism and New Dissent | p. 74 |
| The English Civil Wars | p. 75 |
| The First Restoration Colonies | p. 76 |
| Carolina, Harrington, and the Aristocratic Ideal | p. 77 |
| New York: An Experiment in Absolutism | p. 79 |
| Brotherly Love: The Quakers and America | p. 82 |
| Quaker Beliefs | p. 82 |
| Quaker Families | p. 84 |
| West New Jersey | p. 84 |
| Pennsylvania | p. 85 |
| Conclusion | p. 88 |
| England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion | p. 90 |
| The Atlantic Prism and the Spectrum of Settlement | p. 90 |
| Chronology | p. 91 |
| Demographic Differences | p. 92 |
| Race, Ethnicity, and Economy | p. 92 |
| Religion and Education | p. 95 |
| Local and Provincial Governments | p. 95 |
| Unifying Trends: Language, War, Law, and Inheritance | p. 96 |
| The Beginnings of Empire | p. 96 |
| Upheaval in America: The Critical 1640s | p. 97 |
| Mercantilism as a Moral Revolution | p. 98 |
| The First Navigation Act | p. 99 |
| Restoration Navigation Acts | p. 100 |
| Indians, Settlers, Upheaval | p. 101 |
| Indian Strategies of Survival | p. 101 |
| Puritan Indian Missions | p. 102 |
| Metacom's (or King Philip's) War | p. 104 |
| Virginia's Indian War | p. 106 |
| Bacon's Rebellion | p. 107 |
| Crisis in England and the Redefinition of Empire | p. 109 |
| The Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Rise of Party | p. 110 |
| The Lords of Trade and Imperial Reform | p. 110 |
| The Dominion of New England | p. 113 |
| The Glorious Revolution | p. 114 |
| The Glorious Revolution in America | p. 114 |
| The English Response | p. 115 |
| The Salem Witch Trials | p. 116 |
| The Completion of Empire | p. 117 |
| Imperial Federalism | p. 118 |
| The Mixed and Balanced Constitution | p. 119 |
| Contrasting Empires: Spain and France in North America | p. 121 |
| The Pueblo Revolt | p. 121 |
| New France and the Middle Ground | p. 122 |
| French Louisiana and Spanish Texas | p. 124 |
| An Empire of Settlement: The British Colonies | p. 125 |
| The Engine of British Expansion: The Colonial Household | p. 125 |
| The Voluntaristic Ethic and Public Life | p. 127 |
| Three Warring Empires, 1689-1716 | p. 127 |
| Conclusion | p. 130 |
| Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent | p. 133 |
| Expansion versus Anglicization | p. 133 |
| Chronology | p. 134 |
| Threats to Householder Autonomy | p. 135 |
| Anglicizing the Role of Women | p. 136 |
| Expansion, Immigration, and Regional Differentiation | p. 137 |
| Emergence of the Old South | p. 137 |
| The Mid-Atlantic Colonies: The "Best Poor Man's Country" | p. 140 |
| The Backcountry | p. 141 |
| New England: A Faltering Economy and Paper Money | p. 142 |
| Anglicizing Provincial America | p. 144 |
| The World of Print | p. 145 |
| The Enlightenment in America | p. 147 |
| Lawyers and Doctors | p. 147 |
| Georgia: The Failure of an Enlightenment Utopia | p. 148 |
| The Great Awakening | p. 150 |
| Origins of the Revivals | p. 150 |
| Whitefield Launches the Transatlantic Revival | p. 151 |
| Disruptions | p. 152 |
| Long-Term Consequences of the Revivals | p. 153 |
| New Colleges | p. 154 |
| The Denominational Realignment | p. 154 |
| Political Culture in the Colonies | p. 155 |
| The Rise of the Assembly and the Governor | p. 155 |
| "Country" Constitutions: The Southern Colonies | p. 156 |
| "Court" Constitutions: The Northern Colonies | p. 157 |
| The Renewal of Imperial Conflict | p. 158 |
| Challenges to French Power | p. 158 |
| The Danger of Slave Revolts and War with Spain | p. 160 |
| France versus Britain: King George's War | p. 164 |
| The Impending Storm | p. 164 |
| The War for North America | p. 157 |
| The Albany Congress and the Onset of War | p. 167 |
| History Through Film the War That Made America | p. 168 |
| Britain's Years of Defeat | p. 170 |
| A World War | p. 173 |
| Imperial Tensions: From Loudoun to Pitt | p. 174 |
| The Years of British Victory | p. 175 |
| The Cherokee War and Spanish Intervention | p. 178 |
| The Peace of Paris | p. 179 |
| Conclusion | p. 179 |
| Reform, Resistance, Revolution | p. 181 |
| Imperial Reform | p. 181 |
| From Pitt to Grenville | p. 181 |
| Chronology | p. 182 |
| Indian Policy and Pontiac's War | p. 183 |
| The Sugar Act | p. 185 |
| The Currency Act and the Quartering Act | p. 186 |
| The Stamp Act | p. 186 |
| The Stamp Act Crisis | p. 187 |
| Nullification | p. 188 |
| Repeal | p. 189 |
| The Townshend Crisis | p. 191 |
| The Townshend Program | p. 192 |
| Resistance: The Politics of Escalation | p. 193 |
| An Experiment in Military Coercion | p. 195 |
| The Wilkes Crisis | p. 196 |
| The Boston Massacre | p. 197 |
| Partial Repeal | p. 198 |
| Disaffection | p. 199 |
| Internal Cleavages: The Contagion of Liberty | p. 201 |
| The Feudal Revival and Rural Discontent | p. 201 |
| The Regulator Movements in the Carolinas | p. 203 |
| Slaves and Women | p. 205 |
| The last Imperial Crisis | p. 208 |
| The Tea Crisis | p. 208 |
| Britain's Response: The Coercive Acts | p. 210 |
| The Radical Explosion | p. 210 |
| The First Continental Congress | p. 213 |
| Toward War | p. 213 |
| The Improvised War | p. 214 |
| The Second Continental Congress | p. 215 |
| War and Legitimacy, 1775-1776 | p. 217 |
| Independence | p. 217 |
| Conclusion | p. 219 |
| The Revolutionary Republic | p. 221 |
| Chronology | p. 222 |
| Hearts and Minds: The Northern War, 1776-1777 | p. 222 |
| The British Offensive | p. 222 |
| The Trenton-Princeton Campaign | p. 224 |
| The Campaigns of 1777 and Foreign Intervention | p. 225 |
| The Loss of Philadelphia | p. 225 |
| History Through Film Mary Silliman's War | p. 227 |
| Saratoga | p. 228 |
| French Intervention | p. 228 |
| Spanish Expansion and Intervention | p. 229 |
| The Reconstitution of Authority | p. 230 |
| John Adams and the Separation of Powers | p. 230 |
| The Virginia Constitution | p. 231 |
| The Pennsylvania Constitution | p. 232 |
| Massachusetts Redefines Constitutionalism | p. 233 |
| Confederation | p. 235 |
| The Crisis of the Revolution, 1779-1783 | p. 236 |
| The Loyalists | p. 237 |
| Loyalist Refugees, Black and White | p. 237 |
| The Indian Struggle for Unity and Survival | p. 238 |
| Attrition | p. 239 |
| The British Offensive in the South | p. 241 |
| The Partisan War | p. 244 |
| Mutiny and Reform | p. 246 |
| From the Ravaging of Virginia to Yorktown and Peace | p. 247 |
| A Revolutionary Society | p. 250 |
| Religious Transformations | p. 250 |
| The First Emancipation | p. 251 |
| The Challenge to Patriarchy | p. 252 |
| Western Expansion, Discontent, and Conflict with Indians | p. 253 |
| The Northwest Ordinance | p. 254 |
| A More Perfect Union | p. 256 |
| Commerce, Debt, and Shays's Rebellion | p. 257 |
| Cosmopolitans versus Localists | p. 257 |
| The Philadelphia Convention | p. 259 |
| Ratification | p. 261 |
| Conclusion | p. 263 |
| Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815 | p. 265 |
| Establishing the National Government | p. 265 |
| Chronology | p. 266 |
| The "Republican Court" | p. 266 |
| The First Congress | p. 257 |
| Hamiltonian Economics: The National Debt | p. 268 |
| Hamiltonian Economics: The Bank and the Excise | p. 270 |
| The Rise of Opposition | p. 270 |
| Jefferson versus Hamilton | p. 271 |
| The Republic in a World at War, 1793-1797 | p. 272 |
| Americans and the French Revolution | p. 272 |
| Citizen Genet | p. 273 |
| Western Troubles: The Whiskey Rebellion | p. 274 |
| Western Troubles: Indians | p. 275 |
| The Jay Treaty | p. 275 |
| Washington's Farewell | p. 277 |
| The Election of 1796 | p. 277 |
| Troubles with France, 1796-1800 | p. 279 |
| The Crisis at Home, 1798-1800 | p. 280 |
| The Politicians and the Army | p. 281 |
| The Election of 1800 | p. 282 |
| The Jeffersonians in Power | p. 283 |
| The Republican Program | p. 284 |
| Cleansing the Government | p. 285 |
| The Jeffersonians and the Courts | p. 287 |
| The Impeachments of Pickering and Chase | p. 287 |
| Justice Marshall's Court | p. 288 |
| Louisiana | p. 289 |
| Lewis and Clark | p. 291 |
| The Republic and the Napoleonic Wars, 1804-1815 | p. 293 |
| The Dilemmas of Neutrality | p. 293 |
| Trouble on the High Seas | p. 294 |
| Embargo | p. 295 |
| The Road to War | p. 296 |
| The War Hawk Congress, 1811-1812 | p. 297 |
| American Strategy in 1812 | p. 298 |
| The Rise of Tecumseh | p. 299 |
| The War with Canada, 1812-1813 | p. 301 |
| Tecumseh's Last Stand | p. 301 |
| The British Offensive, 1814 | p. 303 |
| The Hartford Convention | p. 304 |
| The Treaty of Ghent | p. 305 |
| Conclusion | p. 305 |
| Northern Transformations, 1790-1850 307 | |
| Chronology | p. 308 |
| Postcolonial Society, 1790-1815 | p. 308 |
| Farms | p. 308 |
| Neighborhoods | p. 311 |
| Standards of Living | p. 312 |
| Inheritance | p. 312 |
| The Seaport Cities | p. 313 |
| From Backcountry to Frontier: The Northwest | p. 316 |
| The Backcountry, 1790-1815 | p. 316 |
| Settlement | p. 317 |
| The Decline of Patriarchy | p. 318 |
| Paternal Power in Decline | p. 318 |
| The Alcoholic Republic | p. 319 |
| Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 | p. 320 |
| Transportation in 1815 | p. 320 |
| Improvements | p. 321 |
| Time and Money | p. 323 |
| Markets and Regions | p. 324 |
| Northeastern Farms, 1815-1860 | p. 325 |
| The Northwest | p. 327 |
| Southern Settlers | p. 327 |
| Northern Farmers | p. 328 |
| Farm Families | p. 329 |
| Households | p. 329 |
| Neighborhoods | p. 331 |
| The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution | p. 332 |
| Factory Towns: The Rhode Island System | p. 333 |
| Factory Towns: The Waltham System | p. 334 |
| Cities | p. 335 |
| Metropolitan Industrialization | p. 337 |
| History Through Film a Midwife's Tale | p. 338 |
| Conclusion | p. 340 |
| The Old South, 1790-1850 | p. 341 |
| Old Farms: The Southeast | p. 341 |
| The Chesapeake, 1790-1820 | p. 341 |
| Race, Gender, and Chesapeake Labor | p. 342 |
| Chronology | p. 342 |
| Flirting with Emancipation | p. 344 |
| The Lowcountry, 1790-1820 | p. 344 |
| The Task System | p. 345 |
| New Farms: The Rise of the Deep South | p. 346 |
| The Rise of the Cotton Belt | p. 346 |
| The Interstate Slave Trade | p. 348 |
| Cotton and Slave Labor | p. 350 |
| Mastery as a Way of Life | p. 353 |
| Southern Families | p. 354 |
| The Southern Yeomanry | p. 355 |
| Yeomen and Planters | p. 355 |
| Yeoman Neighborhoods | p. 357 |
| The Private Lives of Slaves | p. 359 |
| Slave Families | p. 359 |
| The Slave Trade and the Slave Family | p. 361 |
| The Beginnings of African American Christianity in the Chesapeake | p. 362 |
| Slave Theology | p. 363 |
| Religion and Revolt | p. 364 |
| Gabriel's Rebellion | p. 365 |
| Denmark Vesey | p. 366 |
| Nat Turner | p. 367 |
| A Balance Sheet: The Plantation and Southern Growth | p. 368 |
| History Through Film Beloved | p. 369 |
| Conclusion | p. 371 |
| Toward an American Culture | p. 373 |
| The Democratization of Culture | p. 373 |
| Chronology | p. 374 |
| A Revolution in Print | p. 374 |
| The Northern Middle Class | p. 375 |
| A New Middle Class | p. 376 |
| The Evangelical Base | p. 376 |
| Domesticity | p. 378 |
| Sentimentality | p. 379 |
| The Plain People of the North | p. 381 |
| The Decline of the Established Churches | p. 381 |
| The Rise of the Democratic Sects | p. 382 |
| The Providential Worldview | p. 384 |
| Popular Millennialism | p. 385 |
| Family and Society | p. 387 |
| The Prophet Joseph Smith | p. 387 |
| A New Popular Culture | p. 388 |
| Blood Sports | p. 389 |
| Boxing | p. 390 |
| An American Theater | p. 391 |
| Minstrelsy | p. 392 |
| Novels and the Penny Press | p. 393 |
| Family, Church, and Neighborhood: The White South | p. 395 |
| The Beginnings of the Bible Belt | p. 396 |
| Slavery and Southern Evangelicals | p. 397 |
| Gender, Power, and the Evangelicals | p. 397 |
| Religious Conservatism | p. 398 |
| Pro-Slavery Christianity | p. 399 |
| The Mission to the Slaves | p. 400 |
| Southern Entertainments | p. 401 |
| Race | p. 402 |
| Free Blacks | p. 402 |
| The Beginnings of Modern Racism | p. 404 |
| Citizenship | p. 407 |
| Conclusion | p. 409 |
| Democrats and Whigs | p. 411 |
| The American System | p. 411 |
| Chronology | p. 412 |
| National Republicans | p. 413 |
| Commerce and the Law | p. 415 |
| 1819 | p. 417 |
| The Argument over Missouri | p. 417 |
| The Missouri Compromise | p. 418 |
| The Panic of 1819 | p. 419 |
| Republican Revival | p. 420 |
| Martin Van Buren Leads the Way | p. 420 |
| The Election of 1824 | p. 421 |
| "A Corrupt Bargain" | p. 422 |
| Jacksonian Melodrama | p. 424 |
| Adams versus Jackson | p. 425 |
| Nationalism in an International Arena | p. 425 |
| Nationalism at Home | p. 425 |
| The Birth of the Democratic Party | p. 426 |
| The Election of 1828 | p. 427 |
| A People's Inauguration | p. 428 |
| The Spoils System | p. 429 |
| Jacksonian Democracy and the South | p. 430 |
| History Through Film Amistad | p. 431 |
| Southerners and Indians | p. 432 |
| Indian Removal | p. 432 |
| Southerners and the Tariff | p. 433 |
| Nullification | p. 434 |
| The "Petticoat Wars" | p. 436 |
| The Fall of Calhoun | p. 438 |
| Petitions, the Gag Rule, and the Southern Mails | p. 438 |
| Jacksonian Democracy and the Market Revolution | p. 440 |
| The Second Bank of the United States | p. 441 |
| The Bank War | p. 441 |
| The Beginnings of the Whig Party | p. 443 |
| A Balanced Budget | p. 444 |
| The Second American Party System | p. 446 |
| "Martin Van Ruin" | p. 446 |
| The Election of 1840 | p. 448 |
| Two Parties | p. 449 |
| Conclusion | p. 451 |
| Whigs, Democrats, and the Shaping of Society | p. 453 |
| Constituencies | p. 453 |
| The North and West | p. 454 |
| Chronology | p. 454 |
| The South | p. 456 |
| The Politics of Economic Development | p. 457 |
| Government and Its Limits | p. 457 |
| Banks | p. 458 |
| Internal Improvements | p. 460 |
| The Politics of Social Reform | p. 461 |
| Public Schools | p. 462 |
| Ethnicity, Religion, and the Schools | p. 463 |
| Prisons | p. 464 |
| Asylums | p. 465 |
| The South and Social Reform | p. 465 |
| Excursus: The Politics of Alcohol | p. 467 |
| Ardent Spirits | p. 467 |
| The Origins of Prohibition | p. 469 |
| The Democratization of Temperance | p. 470 |
| Temperance Schisms | p. 471 |
| Ethnicity and Alcohol | p. 472 |
| The Politics of Race | p. 473 |
| Democratic Racism | p. 474 |
| Abolitionists | p. 475 |
| Agitation | p. 477 |
| The Politics of Gender and Sex | p. 477 |
| Appetites | p. 478 |
| Moral Reform | p. 479 |
| Women's Rights | p. 480 |
| Conclusion | p. 482 |
| Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty-or Slavery? | p. 485 |
| Growth as the American Way | p. 485 |
| Chronology | p. 486 |
| Manifest Destiny and Slavery | p. 487 |
| The Westering Impulse | p. 487 |
| The Hispanic Southwest | p. 488 |
| The Oregon and California Trails | p. 488 |
| The Mormon Migration | p. 490 |
| The Republic of Texas | p. 492 |
| The Annexation Controversy | p. 493 |
| Acquisition of Texas and Oregon | p. 494 |
| The Mexican War | p. 495 |
| Military Campaigns of 1846 | p. 496 |
| Military Campaigns of 1847 | p. 497 |
| Antiwar Sentiment | p. 498 |
| The Wilmot Proviso | p. 499 |
| The Election of 1848 | p. 501 |
| The Free Soil Party | p. 502 |
| The Gold Rush and California Statehood | p. 502 |
| The Compromise of 1850 | p. 505 |
| The Senate Debates | p. 505 |
| Passage of the Compromise | p. 507 |
| The Fugitive Slave Law | p. 508 |
| The Slave-Catchers | p. 509 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | p. 511 |
| Filibustering | p. 512 |
| The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny | p. 513 |
| Conclusion | p. 514 |
| The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860 | p. 517 |
| Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party | p. 517 |
| Chronology | p. 518 |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | p. 519 |
| Death of the Whig Party | p. 520 |
| Immigration and Nativism | p. 521 |
| Immigrants in Politics | p. 523 |
| The Rise of the Know-Nothings | p. 524 |
| The Decline of Nativism | p. 526 |
| Bleeding Kansas | p. 527 |
| The Caning of Summer | p. 528 |
| The Election of 1856 | p. 530 |
| The Dred Scott Case | p. 533 |
| The Lecompton Constitution | p. 534 |
| The Economy in the 1850s | p. 535 |
| "The American System of Manufactures" | p. 536 |
| The Southern Economy | p. 538 |
| The Sovereignty of King Cotton | p. 539 |
| Labor Conditions in the North | p. 540 |
| The Panic of 1857 | p. 542 |
| Sectionalism and the Panic | p. 544 |
| The Free-Labor Ideology | p. 545 |
| The Impending Crisis | p. 546 |
| Southern Nonslaveholders | p. 547 |
| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | p. 548 |
| The Freeport Doctrine | p. 550 |
| John Brown at Harpers Ferry | p. 551 |
| Conclusion | p. 552 |
| Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862 | p. 555 |
| The Election of 1860 | p. 555 |
| Chronology | p. 556 |
| The Republicans Nominate Lincoln | p. 557 |
| Southern Fears | p. 558 |
| The Lower South Secedes | p. 559 |
| Northerners Affirm the Union | p. 560 |
| Compromise Proposals | p. 561 |
| Establishment of the Confederacy | p. 562 |
| The Fort Sumter Issue | p. 563 |
| Choosing Sides | p. 565 |
| The Border States | p. 566 |
| The Creation of West Virginia | p. 567 |
| Indian Territory and the Southwest | p. 568 |
| The Balance Sheet of War | p. 568 |
| Strategy and Morale | p. 569 |
| History Through Film the Red Badge of Courage | p. 570 |
| Mobilizing for War | p. 571 |
| Weapons and Tactics | p. 573 |
| Logistics | p. 573 |
| Financing the War | p. 574 |
| Navies, the Blockade, and Foreign Relations | p. 575 |
| King Cotton Diplomacy | p. 576 |
| The Trent Affair | p. 577 |
| The Confederate Navy | p. 577 |
| The Monitor and the Virginia | p. 577 |
| Campaigns and Battles, 1861-1862 | p. 578 |
| The Battle of Bull Run | p. 580 |
| Naval Operations | p. 581 |
| Fort Henry and Fort Donelson | p. 581 |
| The Battle of Shiloh | p. 582 |
| The Virginia Theater | p. 584 |
| The Seven Days' Battles | p. 585 |
| Confederate Counteroffensives | p. 586 |
| The Second Battle of Bull Run | p. 586 |
| Conclusion | p. 588 |
| A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865 | p. 590 |
| Slavery and the War | p. 590 |
| Chronology | p. 591 |
| The "Contrabands" | p. 592 |
| The Border States | p. 592 |
| The Decision for Emancipation | p. 593 |
| New Calls for Troops | p. 594 |
| The Battle of Antietam | p. 595 |
| The Emancipation Proclamation | p. 596 |
| A Winter of Discontent | p. 597 |
| The Rise of the Copperheads | p. 599 |
| Economic Problems in the South | p. 599 |
| The Wartime Draft and Class Tensions | p. 600 |
| A Poor Man's Fight? | p. 602 |
| Blueprint for Modern America | p. 602 |
| Women and the War | p. 603 |
| The Confederate Tide Crests and Recedes | p. 604 |
| The Battle of Chancellorsville | p. 604 |
| The Gettysburg Campaign | p. 605 |
| The Vicksburg Campaign | p. 606 |
| Chickamauga and Chattanooga | p. 607 |
| Black Men in Blue | p. 609 |
| Black Soldiers in Combat | p. 610 |
| Emancipation Confirmed | p. 611 |
| The Year of Decision | p. 612 |
| Out of the Wilderness | p. 612 |
| Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor | p. 613 |
| Stalemate in Virginia | p. 614 |
| The Atlanta Campaign | p. 615 |
| Peace Overtures | p. 616 |
| The Prisoner-Exchange Controversy | p. 617 |
| The Issue of Black Soldiers in the Confederate Army | p. 618 |
| Lincoln's Reelection and the End of the Confederacy | p. 619 |
| The Capture of Atlanta | p. 619 |
| The Shenandoah Valley | p. 619 |
| From Atlanta to the Sea | p. 620 |
| The Battles of Franklin and Nashville | p. 621 |
| Fort Fisher and Sherman's March through the Carolinas | p. 621 |
| The Road to Appomattox | p. 622 |
| The Assassination of Lincoln | p. 623 |
| Conclusion | p. 623 |
| Reconstruction, 1863-1877 | p. 625 |
| Wartime Reconstruction | p. 625 |
| Chronology | p. 626 |
| Radical Republicans and Reconstruction | p. 627 |
| Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction | p. 628 |
| Johnson's Policy | p. 629 |
| Southern Defiance | p. 630 |
| The Black Codes | p. 631 |
| Land and Labor in the Postwar South | p. 631 |
| The Freedmen's Bureau | p. 632 |
| Land for the Landless | p. 632 |
| Education | p. 634 |
| The Advent of Congressional Reconstruction | p. 634 |
| Schism between President and Congress | p. 635 |
| The 14th Amendment | p. 635 |
| The 1866 Elections | p. 636 |
| The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 | p. 636 |
| The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | p. 638 |
| The Completion of Formal Reconstruction | p. 639 |
| The 15th Amendment | p. 640 |
| The Election of 1868 | p. 640 |
| The Grant Administration | p. 641 |
| Civil Service Reform | p. 642 |
| Foreign Policy Issues | p. 643 |
| Reconstruction in the South | p. 644 |
| Blacks in Office | p. 644 |
| "Carpetbaggers" | p. 645 |
| "Scalawags" | p. 646 |
| The Ku Klux Klan | p. 646 |
| History Through Film the Birth of a Nation | p. 648 |
| The Election of 1872 | p. 648 |
| The Panic of 1873 | p. 650 |
| The Retreat from Reconstruction | p. 650 |
| The Mississippi Election of 1875 | p. 652 |
| The Supreme Court and Reconstruction | p. 653 |
| The Election of 1876 | p. 653 |
| Disputed Results | p. 654 |
| The Compromise of 1877 | p. 655 |
| The End of Reconstruction | p. 656 |
| Conclusion | p. 656 |
| Appendix | p. A-1 |
| Glossary | p. G-1 |
| Credits | p. C-1 |
| Index | p. I-1 |
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