Who Built America?
Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society

Part One: Colonization and Revolution, 1492-1800
1. A Meeting of Three Worlds: Europe Colonizes the Americas, 1492-1620
2. Servitude, Slavery and the Growth of the Southern Colonies, 1620-1750
3. Family Labor and the Growth of the Northern Colonies, 1640-1760
4. Towards Revolution, 1750-1776
5. Revolution, Constitution, and the People, 1776-1815

Part Two: Free Labor and Slavery, 1790-1860
6. The Consolidation of Slavery, 1790-1836
7. The Emergence of Wage Labor in the North, 1790-1840
8. The Transformation of Northern Society, 1835-1855
9. The Crisis Over Slavery, 1836-1848

Part Three: War and the Reconstruction of Land and Labor, 1848-1877
10. Western Expansion and Sectional Conflict, 1848-1860
11. The Civil War: America's Second Revolution, 1861-1865
12. Reconstructing an American Nation: Reunion and Social Conflict, 1865-1877