American history : connecting with the past / Alan Brinkley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The collision of cultures -- Transplantations and borderlands -- Society and culture in provincial America -- The empire in transition -- The American Revolution -- The Constitution and the new republic -- The Jeffersonian era -- Varieties of American nationalism -- Jacksonian America -- America's economic revolution -- Cotton, slavery, and the old South -- Antebellum culture and reform -- The impending crisis -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction and the new South -- The conquest of the far West -- Industrial supremacy -- The age of the city -- From crisis to empire -- The progressives -- America and the Great War -- The "New Era" -- The Great Depression -- The New Deal -- The global crisis, 1921-1941 -- America in a world at war -- The Cold War -- The affluent society -- Civil rights, Vietnam, and the ordeal of liberalism -- The crisis of authority -- From the "age of limits" to the age of Reagan -- The age of globalization -- Appendixes.