Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Part 2 Part I: American History
Chapter 3 1. Prior to 1600
Chapter 4 2. American Colonial Experience: 1600 to 1774
Chapter 5 3. American Revolution: 1775 to 1783
Chapter 6 4. Westward Expansion and Settlement, Including Native Americans: 1784-1916
Chapter 7 5. Slavery and Abolitionists: 1814 to 1865
Chapter 8 6. The Civil War: 1861 to 1865
Chapter 9 7. Immigration, Ethnicity, and American Assimilation: 1800 to the Modern Era
Chapter 10 8. Reconstruction to Pre-World War I: 1866 to 1916
Chapter 11 9. World War I, Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression: 1917 to 1940
Chapter 12 10. World War II: 1941 to 1945
Chapter 13 11. Mid-20th Century to the Present
Part 14 Part II: World History
Chapter 15 12. Prehistory and the Ancient World to the 5th Century
Chapter 16 13. Europe-5th to 15th Centuries: Dark Ages, Middle Ages, and Renaissance
Chapter 17 14. Europe-16th to 18th Centuries: Discovery, Reformation, Enlightenment, and Liberty
Chapter 18 15. Europe-19th Century
Chapter 19 16. Europe-First Half of the 20th Century: World War I, World War II, and the Holocaust
Chapter 20 17. Europe-Mid-20th Century to the Present
Chapter 21 18. Africa
Chapter 22 19. Armenia, Turkey, Israel, and the Middle East
Chapter 23 20. China, Korea, India, Pakistan, and Tibet
Chapter 24 21. Vietnam and Thailand
Chapter 25 22. Japan
Chapter 26 23. Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
Chapter 27 24. Canada
Chapter 28 25. Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean
Part 29 Part III: Myths and Folktales
Chapter 30 26. American
Chapter 31 27. International
Chapter 32 Appendix A: A Guide to the Awards
Chapter 33 Appendix B: Sources
Chapter 34 Author/Title Index
Chapter 35 Subject Index
Chapter 36 About the Author
