1. “A New World”: Colonial America 2. “A New Nation”: Causes and Consequences of the War of Independence 3. “America’s Manifest Destiny”: The Significance of the Westward Movement 4. “One Divided Nation under God”: American Society Before and After the Civil War 5. “The Rebirth of the Nation”: The Reconstruction 6. The Fate of the Amerindians 7. “The Gilded Age”: Economy and Society at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries 8. “A Nation of Immigrants”: The Role of Immigration in U.S. History 9. “The Loss of Innocence”: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the 19th-20th Centuries 10. The U.S. in World War I and in the Peace-making Process 11. The Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal 12. “The Arsenal of Democracy”: The U.S. in World War II 13. The Bipolar World: The U.S. in the Cold War 14. Domestic Policy in Cold War U.S. 15. The U.S. and the Post-Cold War World Recommended readings Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans: The Colonial Experience, Vol. I, New York: Random House, 1958. Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans: The National Experience, Vol. II, New York: Vintage Books, 1965. Boorstin, Daniel J., The Americans: The Democratic Experience, Vol. III, New York: Vintage Books, 1974. Brinkley, Alan, The Unfinished Nation. New York, etc.: McGraw-Hill, 1993. Chafe, William H., The Unfinished Journey. America since World War II. New York: Oxford UP, 1986. Combs, Jerald A., The History of American Foreign Policy, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Commager, Henry Steel, The American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950. Ferguson, Niall, Colossus. London: Penguin Books, 2005. Frank, Tibor, and Tamás Magyarics, Handouts for U.S. History. 2nd ed. Budapest: Panem, 1999. Gaddis, John Lewis, We Now Know. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Kissinger, Henry A., Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. LaFeber, Walter, America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-2000. Boston, etc.: McGraw-Hill, 2002.