Shaped with a clear political chronology, MAKING AMERICA, International
Edition reflects the variety of individual experiences and cultures that comprise American
society.
MAKING AMERICA provides a clear, helpful text that meets students where they
are.
For instructors whose classrooms mirror the diversity of today’s college students,
the strongly chronological narrative, together with an integrated program of learning and
teaching aids, makes the historical content vivid and comprehensible to students at all
levels of preparedness.
Table of Contents
1. Making a “New” World, to 1588.
2. A Continent on the Move, 1400–1725.
3. Founding the English Mainland Colonies, 1585–1732.
4. The English Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689–1763.
5. Deciding Where Loyalties Lie, 1763–1776.
6. Recreating America: Independence and a New Nation, 1775–1783.
7. Competing Visions of the Virtuous Republic, 1770–1796.
8. The Early Republic, 1796–1804.
9. Increasing Conflict and War, 1805–1815.
10. The Rise of a New Nation, 1815–1836.
11. The Great Transformation: Growth and Expansion, 1828–1848.
12. Responses to the Great Transformation, 1828–1848.
13. Sectional Conflict and Shattered Union, 1848–1860.
14. A Violent Choice: Civil War, 1861–1865.
15. Reconstruction: High Hopes and Shattered Dreams, 1865–1877.
16. The Nation Industrializes, 1865–1900.
17. Life in the Gilded Age, 1865–1900.
18. Politics and Foreign Relations in a Rapidly Changing Nation, 1865–1902.
19. The Progressive Era, 1900–1917.
20. The United States in a World at War, 1913–1920.
21. Prosperity Decade, 1920–1928.
22. The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929–1939.
23. America’s Rise to World Leadership, 1929–1945.
24. Truman and Cold War America, 1945–1952.
25. Quest for Consensus, 1952–1960.
26. Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960–1968.
27. America Under Stress, 1967–1976.
28. New Economic and Political Alignments, 1976–1992.
29. Entering a New Century, 1992-2010.
976 pages, Paperback
