CONTENTS:

1. The Reconstruction Period
2. Government Affairs and Political Pursuits
3. The Rise of Industrialism
4. The Settlement and the Revolt of the West
5. The United States as a World Power
6. The Progressive Era
7. World War I
8. The 1920s: Peacetime Pursuits
9. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
10. World War II
11. The Quest for Stability at Home and Peace Abroad
12. The New Frontier and the Great Society
13. The Presidency in Disgrace and in Restoration
14. The Triumph of Conservatism
Appendix A: Presidents and Secretaries of State
Appendix B: Admission of States into the Union
Appendix C: Territorial Expansion of the United States
Appendix D: Population of the United States