1. When Worlds Collide: America and Europe Before 10,000 B.C.- A.D. 1550. 2. England in America: The Struggle to Plant a Colony 1550-1624. 3. Puritans and Proprietors: Colonial America 1620-1732. 4. Colonial Society: English Legacies, American Facts of Life. 5. Other Americans: The Indians, French, and Africans of Colonial North America. 6. British America: The Colonies at the Equinox. 7. Years of Tumult: The Quarrel with Great Britain 1763-1770. 8. Riot to Rebellion: The Road to Independence 1770-1776. 9. War for Independence: Winning the Revolution 1776-1781. 10. Inventing a Country: American Constitutions 1781-1789. 11. We the People: Putting the Constitution to Work 1789-1800. 12. The Age of Jefferson: Expansion and Frustration 1800-1815. 13. Beyond the Appalachian Ridge: The West in the Early Nineteenth Century. 14. Nation Awakening: Political, Diplomatic, and Economic Developments 1815-1824. 15. Hero of the People: The Age of Andrew Jackson 1824-1830. 16. In the Shadow of Old Hickory: Personalities and Politics 1830-1842. 17. Sects, Utopias, Visionaries, Reformers: Popular Culture in Antebellum America. 18. A Different Country: The South. 19. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery as It Was Perceived and as It Was. 20. From Sea to Shining Sea: American Expansion 1820-1848. 21. Apples of Discord: The Poisoned Fruits of Victory 1844-1854. 22. The Collapse of the Old Union: The Road to Secession 1854-1861. 23. Tidy Plans, Ugly Realities: The Civil War 1861-1862. 24. Driving Old Dixie Down: General Grant's War of Attrition 1863-1865. 25. Reconstruction: Rebuilding the Shattered Union: 1863-1877. Appendices. Photo Credits. Index.