A sense of the past : readings in American history / by Dorothy S. Arnof, consultants, Henry W. Bragdon , Samuel P. McCutchen.

Cont.: A new country in a new world. The heritage of the colonial period ; The road to revolution ; The American Revolution -- The formation of the federal union. One state or thirteen ; Forging a stronger union ; The Constitution of the United States -- Launching a new government. Establishing the new government ; Federalists and Republicans ; Foreign entanglements -- The nation and the sections. Nationalism ; Sectionalism ; Old Hickory ; Reforms and reformers -- Division and reunion. Manifest Destiny ; The gathering storm ; The war between the states ; Binding up the nation's wounds -- The emergence of modern America. Industrial America ; The opening of the West ; Protest movements ; Parties and politics -- The United States becomes a world power. Emerging from isolation ; Theodore Roosevelt and foreign affairs ; The progressive movement and the Square Deal ; The new freedom ; The First World War -- Prosperity and depression. Normalcy ; Crash ; The New Deal ; The good neighbor and the rise of the dictators -- World leadership. The Second World War ; The affluent society ; The Cold War.