Table of Contents

1. Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
2. North America.


3. The Developing Colonies.


4. An Independent Spirit 1763-1776.


5. Revolution and Independence 1776-1787.


6. We the People 1787-1800.


7. Independence Confirmed 11800-1816.


8. Sinews of Nationhood.


9. Sectionalism and Part 1816-1828.


10. The Jacksonian Era 1828-1840.


11. An Age of Reform.


12.Westward Expansion: The 1840s.


13. Impending Crisis: The 1850s.


14. A Great Civil War 1861-1865.


15. ?Been in the Strom So Long?: Emancipation and
Reconstruction.


Appendixes.


Index.

About the Author

David Burner, a professor of history at SUNY at Stony Brook,
received his doctorate at Columbia, where he studied under Richard
Hofstadter. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Ford
Fellow at Harvard. His early books are The Politics of
Provincialism and Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. He is
also the author of Making Peace with the Sixties (1996) and
John F. Kennedy and a New Generation (2nd edition, 2003). He
is currently writing a history of West Point.






Virginia Bernhard has published two historical novels,
set in seventeenth-century Virginia and Bermuda, as well as a
biography of a Texas governor's daughter. She coedited Southern
Women: Histories and Identities (1992) and teaches at the
University of St. Thomas in Houston. Professor Bernhard has served
on the Advanced Placement test development committee for United
States history.









Stanley I. Kutler is Professor Emeritus at the University
of Wisconsin. He was the founding editor of Reviews in American
History and is editor of ?The American Moment?
series at Johns Hopkins University Press. Among his many books are
The American Inquisition: Justice and Injustice in the Cold
War (1982), Privilege and Creative Destruction: The Charles
River Bridge Case (1989), and The Wars of Watergate: The
Last Crisis of Richard Nixon (1990). In 1996, along with the
advocacy group Public Citizen, he won a landmark decision to
release the suppressed secret Watergate tapes, which led to his
book Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes (1997).