U.S. History
Grade Equivalents
| 🇺🇸 United States | College Freshman |
| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | University Year 1 |
| 🇮🇳 India | B.A./B.Sc. Year 1 |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | University Year 1 |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | University Year 1 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | University Year 1 |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | University Year 1 |
About This Textbook
Designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory U.S. history courses, this textbook provides comprehensive coverage of American history from pre-Columbian civilizations through the present. The text includes primary sources, historical thinking questions, and features that connect past events to contemporary issues.
Table of Contents
The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492 — Early Globalization: The Atlantic World — Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies — Rule Britannia! The English Empire — Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests — America's War for Independence — Creating Republican Governments — Growing Pains: The New Republic — Industrial Transformation — Jacksonian Democracy — A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion — Cotton is King: The Antebellum South — Antebellum Idealism and Reform Movements — Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s — The Civil War — The Era of Reconstruction — Go West Young Man! — Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business — The Growing Pains of Urbanization — Politics in the Gilded Age — Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement — Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy — Americans and the Great War — Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression — Fighting the Good Fight in World War II — Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears — It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times — Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s — Political Storms at Home and Abroad — The Unraveling — From Cold War to Culture Wars — The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century