Liberty, equality, power. Volume I, To 1877 : a history of the American people

When Old Worlds Collide : Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe -- The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America -- England Discovers Its Colonies : Empire, Liberty, and Expansion -- Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent -- Reform, Resistance, Revolution -- The Revolutionary Republic -- Completing the Revolution : 1789-1815 -- Northern Transformations : 1790-11850 -- The Old South : 1790-1850 -- Toward an American Culture -- Democrats and Whigs -- Whigs, Democrats, and the Shaping of Society -- Manifest Destiny : An Empire for Liberty, or Slavery? -- The Gathering Tempest : 1853-1860 -- Secession and Civil War : 1860-1862 -- A New Birth of Freedom : 1862-1865 -- Reconstruction : 1863-1877.

Understanding the past helps us navigate the present and future. When you read this text, you will not only learn about American History, you will be exposed to movies and music that tell the stories of American History in addition to the reading material you expect in a college level history book. A highly respected, balanced, and thoroughly modern approach to US History, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, POWER, uses themes in a unique approach to show how the United States was transformed, in a relatively short time, from a land inhabited by hunter-gatherer and agricultural Native American societies into the most powerful industrial nation on earth. This approach helps you understand not only the impact of the notions of liberty and equality, which are often associated with the American story, but also how dominant and subordinate groups have affected and been affected by the ever-shifting balance of power.