The Collision of Cultures -- england and Its Colonies -- Colonial Ways of Life -- The Imperial Perspective -- From Empire to Independence -- The American Revolution -- Shaping a Federal Union -- The Federalists: Washington and Adams -- Republicanism: Jefferson and Madison -- Nationalism and Sectionalism -- The Jacksonian Impulse -- The Dynamics of Growth -- An American Renaissance: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform -- Manifest Destiny -- The Old South: An American Tragedy -- The Crisis of Union -- The War of the Union -- Reconstruction: North and South Permissions Acknowledgments