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A short history of the United States

Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager c1945 © Mary Commager
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  • The Works of Henry Steele Commager
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • 1. The Planting of the Colonies (page 1)
  • 2. The Colonial Heritage (page 28)
  • 3. The Conquest of New France and the Movement for Independence (page 60)
  • 4. The Revolution and Confederation (page 88)
  • 5. Making the Constitution (page 117)
  • 6. The Republic Finds Itself (page 140)
  • 7. The Rise of National Unity (page 156)
  • 8. Jacksonian Democracy Sweeps In (page 174)
  • 9. The West and Democracy (page 191)
  • 10. The Sectional Struggle (page 213)
  • 11. The Brothers' War (page 237)
  • 12. The Emergence of Modern America (page 257)
  • 13. The Rise of Big Business (page 279)
  • 14. Labor and Immigration (page 307)
  • 15. The West Comes of Age (page 335)
  • 16. The Farmer and His Problems (page 358)
  • 17. The Age of Reform (page 387)
  • 18. The Rise to World Power (page 413)
  • 19. Woodrow Wilson and the World War (page 434)
  • 20. From War to War (page 455)
  • 21. The Second World War (page 493)
  • Index (page 513)
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