America : a narrative history / David Emory Shi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The collision of cultures in the sixteenth century -- England and its American colonies, 1607-1732 -- Colonial ways of life, 1607-1750 -- From colonies to states, 1607-1776 -- The American Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Securing the Constitution and union, 1783-1800 -- The early republic, 1800-1815 -- The emergence of a market economy, 1815-1850 -- Nationalism and sectionalism, 1815-1828 -- The Jacksonian era, 1828-1840 -- The South and slavery, 1800-1860 -- Religion, romanticism, and reform, 1800-1860 -- Western expansion and Southern secession, 1830-1861 -- The War of the Union, 1861-1865 -- The era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Business and labor in the industrial era, 1860-1900 -- The New South and the New West, 1865-1900 -- Political stalemate and rural revolt, 1865-1900 -- Seizing an American empire, 1865-1913 -- The progressive era, 1890-1920 -- America and the Great War, 1914-1920 -- A clash of cultures, 1920-1929 -- The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939 -- The Second World War, 1933-1945 -- The Cold War and the fair Deal, 1945-1952 -- Affluence and anxiety in the atomic age, 1950-1959 -- New Frontiers and a Great Society, 1960-1968 -- Rebellion and reaction, the 1960s and 1970s -- Conservative revival, 1977-1990 -- Twenty-first-century America, 2000-present.

"The best-selling storytelling approach with more support for student success. David Shi's rich storytelling style fills America's celebrated narrative with colorful biographical sketches and vivid first-person quotations. The latest edition welcomes more diverse voices with new coverage of the Latino/a experience as well as on-going enhanced coverage of gender, African American, Native American, immigration, and LGBTQ history"-- Provided by publisher.