The American Pageant (PDF Files)
Please note that these chapters come from The American Pageant, 12th edition. If you are currently using the 14th edition, please cross reference your book to ensure that you're reading the correct material.
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings
Chapter 2: The Planting of English America
Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies
Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
Chapter 6: The Duel for North America
Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution
Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire
Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution
Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State
Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic
Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism
Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy
Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy
Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture
Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion
Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Guilded Age
Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age
Chapter 25: America Moves to the City
Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
Chapter 27: The Path of Empire
Chapter 28: America on the World Stage
Chapter 29: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
Chapter 30: Wilsoniam Progressivism at Home and Abroad
Chapter 31: The War to End War
Chapter 32: American Life in the Roaring Twenties
Chapter 33: The Politics of Boom and Bust
Chapter 34: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Chapter 35: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
Chapter 36: America in World War II
Chapter 37: The Cold War Begins
Chapter 38: The Eisenhower Era
Chapter 39: The Stormy Sixties
Chapter 40: The Stalemated Seventies




