1. A Continent of Villages, to 1500
2. When Worlds Collide, 1492-1590
3. Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701
4. Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770
5. The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780
6. From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776
7. The American Revolution, 1776-1786
8. The New Nation, 1786-1800
9. An Empire for Liberty, 1790-1824
10. The South and Slavery, 1790s-1850s
11. The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840
12. Industry and the North, 1790s-1840s
13. Immigration, Urbanization, and Social Reform, 1820s-1850s
14. The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s
15. The Coming Crisis, the 1850s
16. The Civil War, 1861-1865
17. Reconstruction, 1863-1877
18. The Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900
19. Production and Consumption in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900
20. Democracy and Empire, 1870-1900
21. Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900-1917
22. The United States in the Era of the Great War, 1901-1920
23. The Twenties, 1920-1929
24. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1940
25. World War II, 1941-1945
26. The Cold War Begins, 1945-1952
27. America at Mid-Century, 1952-1963
28. The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1966
29. War Abroad, War at Home, 1965-1974
30. The Conservative Ascendancy, 1974-1999
31. Inequality in the Global Age, 2000-Present
Volume I includes chapters 1-17; Volume II includes chapters 17-31.