Becoming America : a history for the 21st century / David Henkin, Rebecca McLennan, The University of California, Berkeley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Convergence of many peoples: America before 1600 -- Early colonies, 1600-1680 -- Slavery & race, 1660-1750 -- British colonies in an Atlantic economy, 1660-1750 -- Empires, war, & the transformation of Indian country, 1700-1765 -- Crisis & war, 1765-1781 -- Making a new nation, 1776-1792 -- The early republic, 1790-1811 -- War, expansion, & Indian removal, 1811-1830 -- Market society & the birth of mass politics, 1825-1844 -- Slavery & the South, 1831-1844 -- Era of middle-class reform, 1831-1848 -- Expansion, nationalism, & America popular culture, 1844-1854 -- A union unraveling, 1848-1860 -- Disunion & war, 1861-1865 -- Southern reconstruction, 1862-1883 -- Remaking the West, 1865-1893 -- Industrializing America, 1865-1885 -- Politics & discontent in the Gilded Age, 1878-1896 -- The progressive era, 1896-1914 -- Birth of a great power: the United States & the world, 1880-1914 -- War & peace, 1914-1920 -- America in the jazz age, 1920-1929 -- America remade: the Great Depression & the New Deal, 1929-1939 -- America goes to war, 1939-1945 -- Postwar America, 1945-1953 -- The age of affluence, 1953-1960 -- Era of dreams & discontent, 1960-1969 -- Reaction, recession, & globalization: 1970-1979 -- Deindustrializing America, 1980-1992 -- Globalizing America, 1992 to the present.