The American Pageant: A History of the American People
Author:David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen
Edition:17th Edition
The history of the United States is traced from early exploration and colonization through modern times, highlighting the political, economic, and social forces that shaped the nation. It examines key events such as the American Revolution, Civil War, industrialization, and global conflicts, while emphasizing themes of democracy, expansion, reform, and cultural change across different eras of American life.

Chapters
- Chapter 1: New World Beginnings – Early Exploration & Colonization→
- Chapter 2: Colliding Worlds – Europe, Africa & the Americas Meet→
- Chapter 3: Settling the English Colonies – Chesapeake to New England→
- Chapter 4: American Life in the 17th Century→
- Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution→
- Chapter 6: The Road to Revolution – Causes & Protests→
- Chapter 7: America Secedes from the Empire – The Revolution Begins→
- Chapter 8: The Confederation & the Constitution – Nation Building→
- Chapter 9: Launching the New Nation – Washington & Hamilton→
- Chapter 10: The Triumphs and Travails of Jefferson’s Presidency→
- Chapter 11: The War of 1812 & the Rise of Nationalism→
- Chapter 12: The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy→
- Chapter 13: Forging the National Economy – Market Revolution→
- Chapter 14: The Ferment of Reform & Culture – Second Awakening→
- Chapter 15: The South & Slavery in the Early 1800s→
- Chapter 16: Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion→
- Chapter 17: Renewing the Sectional Struggle – Slavery & Politics→
- Chapter 18: Drifting Toward Disunion – The Nation Divides→
- Chapter 19: The North & South Prepare for War→
- Chapter 20: The Furnace of the Civil War – Battles & Strategy→
- Chapter 21: The Ordeal of Reconstruction – Rebuilding the South→
- Chapter 22: The Industrial Era Dawns – Gilded Age Growth→
- Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age→
- Chapter 24: America Moves to the City – Immigration & Urban Life→
- Chapter 25: The Conquest of the West – Expansion & Resistance→
- Chapter 26: Rumbles of Discontent – Populists & Labor Unrest→
- Chapter 27: Empire & Expansion – The Spanish-American War→
- Chapter 28: Progressivism & Roosevelt’s Reform Era→
- Chapter 29: Wilson’s Progressivism in Peace & War→
- Chapter 30: American Life in the Roaring Twenties→
- Chapter 31: The Great Depression & FDR’s New Deal→
- Chapter 32: FDR & the Shadow of War – Pre–World War II America→
- Chapter 33: America in World War II→
- Chapter 34: The Cold War Begins – Containment & Conflict→
- Chapter 35: American Zenith – Prosperity & the 1950s→
- Chapter 36: The Stormy Sixties – Civil Rights & Vietnam→
- Chapter 37: A Sea of Troubles – The 1970s→
- Chapter 38: The Resurgence of Conservatism – Reagan Era→
- Chapter 39: America in the Post–Cold War World→
- Chapter 40: The American People Face a New Century→
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