Includes bibliographical references and index. Brinkley, A. (2008). The unfinished nation: A concise history of the American people (5th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill.

Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures -- Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands -- Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America -- Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition -- Chapter 5: The American Revolution -- Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic -- Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian Era -- Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism -- Chapter 9: Jacksonian America -- Chapter 10: America's Economic Revolution -- Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South -- Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform -- Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis -- Chapter 14: The Civil War -- Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South -- Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West -- Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy -- Chapter 18: The Age of the City -- Chapter 19: From Stalemate to Crisis -- Chapter 20: The Imperial Republic -- Chapter 21: The Rise of Progressivism -- Chapter 22: The Battle for National Reform -- Chapter 23: America and the Great War -- Chapter 24: The New Era -- Chapter 25: The Great Depression -- Chapter 26: The New Deal -- Chapter 27: The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 -- Chapter 28: America in a World at War -- Chapter 29: The Cold War -- Chapter 30: The Affluent Society -- Chapter 31: The Ordeal of Liberalism -- Chapter 32: The Crisis of Authority -- Chapter 33: From "The Age of Limits" to the Age of Reagan -- Chapter 34: The Age of Globalization -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Index