Ⅰ．THE COLONIAL PERIOD(1600-1783)

The Puritan Mode of Thought from Daniel Boorstin，The Americans

Political and Social Structure in Colonial Virginia＆by Bernard Bailyn

The Spirit of＇76＆by Carl Lotus Becker

Benjamin Franklin

1．Meet Dr．Franklin＆by Carl Van Doren

2．Benjamin Franklin：Philosophical Revolutionist＆by Bernhard Knollenberg

Ⅱ．THE NEW NATION(1783-1830)

The Federal Compromise from Carl Van Doren，The Great Rehearsal

Thomas Jefferson

1．＇Jefferson Still Survives—＇＆by Saul K．Padover

2．Which Jefferson Do You Quote？＆by Clinton Rossiter

Popular Characteristics of the American People from Henry Adams，History of the United States of America，as edited and condensed by Herbert Agar in The Formative Years

An Era of Good Feelings from George Dangerfield，The Era of Good Feelings

The Transcontinental Treaty with Spain from Samuel Flagg Bemis，John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy

Ⅲ．FERMENT AND CHANGE(1830-1850)

Veto from Arthur M．Schlesinger，Jr．，The Age of Jackson

Reform Movements in the Jacksonian Period

1．The Reforms of the 1830＇s from Robert E．Riegel，Young America，1830-1840

2．The Utopians from Alice Felt Tyler，Freedom＇s Ferment

Extension of the Area of Freedom from Albert K．Weinberg，Manifest Destiny

Ⅳ．PRELUDE TO WAR(1850-1861)

John Caldwell Calhoun—The Marx of the Master Class from Richard Hofstadter，The American Political Tradition

To Make Them Stand in Fear from Kenneth M．Stampp，The Peculiar Institution

Critical Years from Herbert Agar，The Price of Union

Peace or War from Allan Nevins，The War for the Union

Ⅴ．WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH(1861-1876)

Thunder over the Cabinet from Carl Sandburg，Abraham Lincoln：The War Years

Roads Leading South from Bruce Catton，A Stillness at Appomattox

There Is No Peace from Paul H．Buck，The Road to Reunion

Reconstruction—Black and White from John Hope Franklin，Reconstruction