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Chapter 1: Early Colonization and Conflict, 1607–1689
Chapter 1 discusses how colonization in seventeenth-century North America brought people from widely disparate cultures and societies into close proximity...
Chapter 2: Wars Imperial and Regional, 1689–1763
Chapter 2 will focus on the numerous seventeenth-century North American conflicts that natives and colonists waged, often stemming from regional tensions...
Chapter 3: The American Revolution, 1763–1783
Chapter 3 focuses on the origins of the American Revolution and the subsequent war between American Patriots and Great Britain. While many people....
Chapter 4: Challenges in the Early Republic, 1783–1815
Chapter 4 covers the host of challenges the United States faced in the generation after winning its independence, including internal revolts, hostilities with Indians, conflict...
Chapter 5: Expansion, 1815–1865
Chapter 5 analyzes the period between the War of 1812 and up through the American Civil War, though the latter conflict itself is addressed in the next...
Chapter 6: The American Civil War
Chapter 6 examines the first two years of the American Civil War. Though the U.S. military had proven its worth in the middle of the nineteenth century in the...
Chapter 7: The American Civil War
Chapter 7 discusses the American Civil War from 1863 to the conclusion of the war in 1865. As 1863 began, Union and Confederate armies...
Chapter 8: Transitions
Chapter 8 covers the period between the end of the Civil War and the creation of an overseas American empire, pinpointing the variety of conflicts the U.S. military...
Chapter 9: Early Twentieth-Century Reforms and the Great War, 1902–1918
Chapter 9 discusses the period after the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection when the United States became a member of the great power...
Chapter 10: Transformations in the Interwar Years, 1918–1941
Chapter 10 discusses the years in between the two world wars, 1918 to 1941. It focuses on two intertwined trends that effected the United States military...
Chapter 11: Mobilizing for the Second World War, 1941–1943
Chapter 11 examines the first years of American involvement in the Second World War, 1941 to 1943. By the end of 1941, bloody conflicts had engulfed...
Chapter 12: Winning the Second World War, 1943–1945
Chapter 12 focuses on the last years of the Second World War, 1943 to 1945. In Europe, the Allied landings on North Africa, Sicily, and Italy in...
Chapter 13: American National Security in the Early Cold War, 1945–1961
Chapter 13 explains the origins of the Cold War and the development of American strategy in the postwar world. Following the end of the conflict...
Chapter 14: Confrontations in the Cold War, 1961–1973
Chapter 14 explains a period of confrontation in the Cold War, from 1960 to 1973. When John F. Kennedy became president in 1961, he inherited...
Chapter 15: From Cold War to Pax Americana, 1973–2001
Chapter 15 begins with the legacy of the Vietnam War and the U.S. military. The Vietnam War cast a long shadow over the next four decades after its end in 1973. Every president had...
Chapter 16: Global War on Terror and Global Uncertainty, 2001–2024
Chapter 16 starts on September 11, 2001, when the hopes for global peace were shattered by Islamic fundamentalists killing 3,000 people in terrorist attacks...