The American Pageant

Lizabeth Cohen is an historian of the United States in the 20th century in the Harvard History Department, where she is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Professor. She is the author most recently of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History. Previous books include A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America and Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, which also won the Bancroft and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History. She was Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2011-2018. David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus and founding Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. He also serves as editor of the Oxford History of the United States series. His volume in the series, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Ambassador's Prize, and the California Gold Medal for Literature. He is also the author of Over Here: The First World War and American Society, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, which won the Bancroft Prize. He is also editor of The Modern American Military, and co-editor of World War II and the West it Wrought. He lives in Stanford, California.

PART I: PEOPLING A CONTINENT c. 33,000 B.C.E. – 1700 C.E.
1. New World Beginnings 33,000 B.C.E. – 1680 C.E.
2. Aspiring Empires in North America 1500 – 1664.
3. Settling the English Colonies 1619 – 1700.
PART II: BUILDING A BRITISH NORTH AMERICA 1607 – 1775.
4. American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1607 – 1692.
5. Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution 1700 – 1775.
6. The Road to Revolution 1754 – 1775.
PART III: FOUNDING A NEW NATION 1775 – 1800.
7. America Secedes from the Empire 1775 – 1783.
8. The Confederation and the Constitution 1776 – 1790.
9. Launching the New Ship of State 1789 – 1800.
PART IV: BUILDING THE NEW NATION 1800 – 1860.
10. The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic 1800 – 1812.
11. The War of 1812 and the Upsurge of Nationalism 1812 – 1824.
12. The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824 – 1840.
13. Forging the National Economy 1790 – 1860.
14. The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790 – 1860.
15. The South and Slavery 1793 – 1860.
PART V: TESTING THE NEW NATION 1841 – 1877.
16. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy 1841 – 1848.
17. Renewing the Sectional Struggle 1848 – 1854.
18. Drifting Toward Disunion 1854 – 1861.
19. Girding for War: The North and the South 1861 – 1865.
20. The Furnace of Civil War 1861 – 1865.
21. The Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865 – 1877.
PART VI: FORGING AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY 1865 – 1900.
22. The Industrial Era Dawns 1865 – 1900.
23. Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age 1869 – 1896.
24. America Moves to the City 1865 – 1900.
25. The Conquest of the West 1865 – 1896.
26. Rumbles of Discontent 1865 – 1900.
PART VII: STRUGGLING FOR JUSTICE AT HOME AND ABROAD 1890 – 1945.
27. Empire and Expansion 1890 – 1909.
28. Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt 1901 – 1912.
29. Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War 1913 – 1920.
30. American Life in the Roaring Twenties" 1920 – 1932.
31. The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933 – 1939.
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933 – 1941.
33. America in World War II 1941 – 1945.
PART VIII: MAKING AN AMERICAN SUPERPOWER 1945 – 1980.
34. The Cold War Begins 1945 – 1952.
35. American Zenith 1952 – 1963.
36. The Stormy Sixties 1963 – 1973.
37. A Sea of Troubles 1973 – 1980.
PART IX: SUSTAINING DEMOCRACY IN A GLOBAL AGE 1980 to the present.
38. The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980 – 1992.
39. America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992 – 2000.
40. The American People Face a New Century, 2001 – 2018."