Chapter One. THE NATURE OF HISTORY

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS xi
4. ABBREVIATIONS xxiii
5. PART I. Status, Methods, and Presentation
6. Chapter One. THE NATURE OF HISTORY 3
7. Chapter Two. RESEARCH AND WRITING 36
8. PART II. Materials and Tools
9. Chapter Three. THE MATERIALS OF HISTORY 57
10. Chapter Four. AIDS TO HISTORICAL RESEARCH 105
11. Chapter Five. HISTORICAL SOURCES 118
12. PART III. Colonial History and the Revolution 1492–1788
13. Chapter Six. FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO 1600 249
14. Chapter Seven. THE PLANTING OF THE DUTCH, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH IN NORTH AMERICA TO 1660 261
15. Chapter Eight. FROM THE STUART RESTORATION TO THE TREATY OF UTRECHT 1660–1713 274
16. Chapter Nine. FROM THE TREATY OF UTRECHT TO THE REVOLUTION 284
17. Chapter Ten. THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1760–1789 294
18. PART IV. National Growth, 1789–1865
19. Chapter Eleven. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC 315
20. Chapter Twelve. REPUBLICAN SUPREMACY, 1801–1815 326
21. Chapter Thirteen. THE NEW NATIONALISM, 1815–1829 337
22. Chapter Fourteen. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EXPANSION, 1820–1860 344
23. Chapter Fifteen. JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY, 1829–1840 357
24. Chapter Sixteen. MANIFEST DESTINY AND SLAVERY, 1830–1848 361
25. Chapter Seventeen. THE YEARS OF DECISION, 1848–1861 374
26. Chapter Eighteen. THE CIVIL WAR 385
27. PART V. The Rise of Modern America 1865–1900
28. Chapter Nineteen. LIQUIDATION OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1865–1880 401
29. Chapter Twenty. ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, 1865–1880 410
30. Chapter Twenty-one. NATIONAL POLITICS AND ECONOMIC TRENDS 1880–1900 421
31. Chapter Twenty-two. SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL GROWTH, 1865–1900 434
32. Chapter Twenty-three. THE CRUMBLING OF NATIONAL ISOLATION 1875–1900 450
33. PART VI. America in the Twentieth Century
34. Chapter Twenty-four. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, 1900–1920 459
35. Chapter Twenty-five. THE IMPACT OF REFORM ON POLITICS, 1900–1920 468
36. Chapter Twenty-six. THE DIPLOMACY OF EXPANSION, 1900–1917 476
37. Chapter Twenty-seven. THE WORLD WAR 481
38. Chapter Twenty-eight. DECADE OF PROSPERITY, 1920–1929 488
39. Chapter Twenty-nine. GREAT DEPRESSION, 1930–1941 505
40. Chapter Thirty. WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1941–1952 525
41. REFERENCES ADDED IN THE SECOND PRINTING 544
42. INDEX 547