Period 1:  1491-1607

Chapter 1:  The Collision of Cultures

Period 2:  1607-1754

Chapter 2:  Transplantations and Borderlands
Chapter 3:  Society and Culture in Provincial America
​Chapter 4:  The Empire in Transition (Bridges into Period 3)

Period 3:  1754-1800

Chapter 5:  The American Revolution
Chapter 6:  The Constitution and the New Republic

​Period 4:  1800-1848

Chapter 7:  The Jeffersonian Era
Chapter 8:  Varieties of American Nationalism
Chapter 9:  Jacksonian Era
Chapter 10:  American's Economic Revolution
Chapter 11:  Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
Chapter 12:  Antebellum Culture and Reform

Period 5:  1844-1877

Chapter 13:  The Impending Crisis
Chapter 14:  The Civil War
Chapter 15:  Reconstruction and the New South (Bridges into Period 6)
​Chapter 16:  The Conquest of the Far West (Bridges into Period 6)

Period 6:  1865-1898

Chapter 17:  Industrial Supremacy
Chapter 18:  The Age of the City  
​Chapter 19:  From Crisis to Empire (Bridges into Period 7)

Period 7:  1890-1945

Chapter 20:  The Progressives
Chapter 21:  America and the Great War
Chapter 22:  The "New Era"
Chapter 23:  The Great Depression
Chapter 24:  The New Deal  
Chapter 25:  The Global Crisis, 1921-1941
Chapter 26: America in a World at War

​Period 8:  1945-1980

Chapter 27:  The Cold War
Chapter 28:  The Affluent Society
Chapter 29:  Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism
Chapter 30:  The Crisis of Authority
​Chapter 31:  From the "Age of Limits" to the Age of Reagan 
                                                                         (Bridges into Period 9)

Period 9:  1980-Present

Chapter 32:  The Age of Globalization