Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History

• Volume 1
  • Preface
  • Part I: Colonization and Revolution, 1492-1815
    • Chapter 1: A Meeting of Three Worlds: Europe, Africa, and American Colonization, 1492-1680
    • Chapter 2: Servitude, Slavery, and the Growth of the Southern Colonies, 1620-1760
    • Chapter 3: Family Labor and the Growth of the Northern Colonies, 1640-1760
    • Chapter 4: Toward Revolution, 1750-1776
    • Chapter 5: Revolution, Constitution, and the People, 1776-1815
  • Part II: Free Labor and Slavery, 1790-1850
    • Chapter 6: The Consolidation of Slavery in the South, 1790-1836
    • Chapter 7: Northern Society and the Growth of Wage Labor, 1790-1837
    • Chapter 8: Immigration, Urban Life, and Social Reform in the Free Labor North, 1838-1860
    • Chapter 9: The Spread of Slavery and the Crisis of Southern Society, 1836-1848
  • Part III: War, Reconstruction, and Labor, 1848-1877
    • Chapter 10: The Settlement of the West and the Conflict over Enslaved Labor, 1848-1860
    • Chapter 11: The Civil War: America's Second Revolution, 1861-1865
    • Chapter 12: Reconstructing the Nation, 1865-1877
    • Chapter 13: New Frontiers: Westward Expansion and Industrial Growth, 1865-1877
• Volume 2
  • Part I: Monopoly and Upheaval, 1877-1914
    • Chapter 1: Progress and Poverty: Industrial Capitalism in the Gilded Age, 1877-1893
    • Chapter 2: Community and Conflict: Working People Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1877-1893
    • Chapter 3: From Depression to Expansion: Industrial Capitalism Triumphs at Home and Abroad, 1893-1900
    • Chapter 4: Change and Continuity in Daily Life, 1900-1914
    • Chapter 5: Radicals and Reformers in the Progressive Era, 1900-1914
  • Part II: War, Depression, and Industrial Unionism, 1914-1946
    • Chapter 6: Wars for Democracy, 1914-1920
    • Chapter 7: A New Era, 1920-1929
    • Chapter 8: The Great Depression and the First New Deal, 1929-1935
    • Chapter 9: Labor Democratizes America, 1935-1939
    • Chapter 10: A Nation Transformed: The United States in World War II, 1939-1946
  • Part III: Cold War America – And After, 1946-2016
    • Chapter 11: The Cold War Boom, 1946-1960
    • Chapter 12: The Rights Conscious 1960s, 1960-1973
    • Chapter 13: Economic Adversity Transforms the Nation, 1973-1989
  • Part IV: A Fragmented Nation, 1989-2021
    • Chapter 14: The American People in an Age of Global Capitalism, 1989-2001
    • Chapter 15: America's World After 9/11, 2001-2007
    • Chapter 16: Hope, Change, and Fear, 2007-2016
    • Chapter 17: Coda: "To Continue the Work of Our Foreparents"