A Biography of America presents history not simply as a series of irrefutable facts to be memorized, but as a living narrative. Prominent historians -- Donald L. Miller, Pauline Maier, Louis P. Masur, Waldo E. Martin, Jr., Douglas Brinkley and Virginia Scharff -- present America's story as something that is best understood from a variety of perspectives. Thought-provoking debates and lectures encourage critical analysis of the forces that have shaped America. First-person narratives, photos, film footage and documents reveal the human side of American history -- how historical figures affected events and the impact of these events on citizens' lives.

1. New World Encounters

2. English Settlement

3. Growth and Empire

4. The Coming of Independence

5. A New System of Government

6. Westward Expansion

7. The Rise of Capitalism

8. The Reform Impulse

9. Slavery

10. The Coming of the Civil War

11. The Civil War

12. Reconstruction

13. America at its Centennial

14. Industrial Supremacy

15. The New City

16. The West

17. Capital and Labor

18. TR and Wilson

19. A Vital Progressivism

20. The Twenties

21. FDR and the Depression

22. World War II

23. The Fifties

24. The Sixties

25. Contemporary History

26. The Redemptive Imagination

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