Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition – Eric Foner
Introduction to the First Edition – Eric Foner
Part I: Eras of the American Past
1. Beneficiaries of Catastrophe: The English Colonies in America – John M. Murin
2. The Revolutionary Generation: Ideology, Politics, and Culture in the Early Republic – Linda K. Kerber
3. Society, Politics, and the Market Revolution, 1815-1848 – Sean Wilentz
4. Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction – Eric Foner
5. Public Life in Industrial America, 1877-1917 – Richard L. McCormick
6. Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 – Alan Brinkley
7. America since 1945 – William H. Chafe
Part II: Major Themes in American Experience
8. Intellectual and Cultural History – Thomas Bender
9. Western History – Richard White
10. Social History – Alice Kessler-Harris
11. U.S. Women's History – Linda Gordon
12. The History of the Family and the History of Sexuality – Estelle B. Freedman
13. African-American History – Thomas C. Holt
14. American Labor History – Leon Fink
15. Ethnicity and Immigration – Thomas B. Shenton and Kevin Kenny
16. Liberty and Power: U.S. Diplomatic History, 1750-1945 – Walter LaFeber
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