Introduction: Seeing the Past Through Maps
1. 1490–1600: Contact and Discovery
2. 1600–1700: Early Settlement and the Northwest Passage
3. 1700–1783: Imperialism and Independence
4. 1783–1835: A Nation Realized
5. 1835–1874: Expansion, Fragmentation, and Reunification
6. 1874–1914: Industrialization and Its Discontents
7. 1914–1940: Prosperity, Depression, and Reform
8. 1940–1962: Between War and Abundance
9. 1962–2001: An Unsettled Peace
Afterword: The Road Ahead
Endnotes and Additional Sources
List of Maps
Index
Acknowledgments