- Colonial Foundation
- The Confederation
- Inventing a Nation: The U.S. Constitution
- A New Government: 1789–93
- A Tested Government: 1793–97
- Decline of Federalism: 1797–1800
- Democratic-Republicanism Blooms: 1801–5
- Foreign Entanglements: 1806–12
- War of 1812: 1812–15
- Nationalism: 1815
- A Farming Society
- Religion's Influences
- Everyday Life
- Slavery, Free Blacks, and Native Americans
- Westward Expansion
