[This] textbook is a tool that helps you learn more about the world around you. It is an example of nonfiction writing -- it describes real-life events, people, ideas, and places. This textbook organizes the events of your nation's past and present around 10 themes. [These] themes help you understand events in the past and how they affect you today. - p. T54, T56.

"National Geographic." Includes index.

Unit 1: Three worlds meet: Beginnings to 1763; Unit 2: Creating a nation 1754-1816; Unit 3 : The young republic, 1789-1850; Unit 4: The crisis of union, 1848-1877; Unit 5, The Birth of Modern America, 1865-1900; Unit 6: Imperialism and progressivism, 1890-1919; Unit 7 : Boom and bust, 1920-1941; Unit 8 : Global struggles, 1934-1960; Unit 9 : A time of upheaval, 1954-1980; Unit 10 : A changing society, 1968-present.-- Glossary.