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Topic 1: New World Encounters

Topic 2: New World Experiments: England’s Seventeenth-Century Colonies

Topic 3: Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society

Topic 4: Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America

Topic 5: The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763–1983

Topic 6: The Republican Experiment

Topic 7: Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788–1800

Topic 8: Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision

Topic 9: Nation Building and Nationalism

Topic 10:The Triumph of White Men’s Democracy

Topic 11: Slaves and Masters

Topic 12: The Pursuit of Perfection

Topic 13: An Age of Expansionism

Topic 14: The Sectional Crisis

Topic 15: Secession and the Civil War

Topic 16: The Agony of Reconstruction

Topic 17: The West: Exploiting an Empire

Topic 18: The Industrial Society

Topic 19: Toward an Urban Society, 1877–1900

Topic 20: Political Realignments in the 1890s

Topic 21: Toward Empire

Topic 22: The Progressive Era

Topic 23: From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism

Topic 24: The Nation at War

Topic 25: Transition to Modern America

Topic 26: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

Topic 27: America and the World, 1921–1945

Topic 28: The Onset of the Cold War

Topic 29: Affluence and Anxiety

Topic 30: The Turbulent Sixties

Topic 31: A New Conservatism, 1969–1988

Topic 32: To the Twenty-First Century, 1989–2006

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