Introduction Part I: Getting There, Getting Settled, and Getting Free. America: A Short Biography
Native Americans and Explorers: 12,000 BC(?)-1607
Pilgrims' Progress: The English Colonies, 1607-1700
You Say You Want a Revolution...: 1700-1775
Yankee Doodlin': 1775-1783
Blueprints and Birth Pains: 1783-1800. Part II: Growing Pains. ``Long Tom'' and One Weird War: 1800-1815
Pulling Together to Keep from Falling Apart: 1815-1844
War, Gold, and a Gathering Storm: 1845-1860
A Most Uncivil War: 1861-1865
Putting the Country Back Together: 1865-1876. Part III: Coming of Age. Growing Up: 1876-1898
Growing into the 20th Century: 1899-1918
Gin, Jazz, and Lucky Lindy: 1919-1929
Uncle Sam's Depressed: 1930-1940
The World at War: 1941-1945. Part IV: America in Adulthood. TV, Elvis, and Reds under the Bed: 1946-1960
Camelot to Watergate: 1961-1974
Hold the Malaise, or, Ayatollah So: 1975-1992
No Sex, Please, I'm the President: 1993-1999
``It's A Small World, After All'': Entering the 21st Century. Part V: The Part of Tens. Ten American Inventions that Changed Life as We Know It
Ten Events that Defined American Culture
Ten Events in U.S. History They Keep Making into Movies. Part VI: Appendixes.
