Contents :
V.1. Three worlds meet, beginnings to 1607.- V.2. Colonization and settlement, 1608- 1760.- V. 3. Revolution and new nation, 1761 to 1812 .- V.4. Expansion and reform, 1813 to 1855.- V. 5. Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1869.- V.6. The development of the industrial United States, 1870 to 1899.- V.7. The emergence of modern America, 1900 to 1928.- V.8. The Great Depression and World War II, 1929 to 1945.- V.9. Postwar United States, 1946 to 1968.- V.10. Contemporary United States, 1969 to the present.- V.11. Comprehensive index