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--v. 1. The Colonial And Revolutionary Eras, 1492-1783 -- V. 2. The Early Republic Era, 1783-1860 -- V. 3. The Civil War Era, 1861-1865 -- V. 4. The Reconstruction Era, 1865-1877 -- V. 5. The Gilded Age, Progressive Era And World War I, 1877-1920 -- V. 6. The Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, And World War Ii, 1920-1945 -- V. 7. The Postwar And Civil Rights Era, 1945-1973 -- V. 8. Toward The Twenty-first Century, 1974-present. V. 1. The Colonial And Revolutionary Eras, 1492-1783. Christopher Columbus: Hero Or Villain?; Slavery And Freedom In Early Virginia; Church And State In Early Puritan Massachusetts; Peter Stuyvesant And The Loss Of New Netherland -- King Philip's War; Bacon's Rebellion; Salem Witch Trials; The Great Awakening; John Peter Zenger And Freedom Of The Press In America -- The New York Slave Conspiracy; The Iroquois Confederation; The Albany Plan Of Union; Fort William Henry In The French And Indian War; Biological Warfare: Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Native Americans, And Smallpox; The Stamp Act And The Crisis Of Colonial Government; Withdrawing From The British Economy; Military Strategy; The Continental Army; Revolutionary Finance; Biographies --^ V. 2. The Early Republic Era, 1783-1860. The Constitutional Debates; The Economy Of The New Nation: Depression, Rebellion, Speculation, And Reform; The Whiskey Rebellion And Emergence Of Federal Power; The Haitian Revolution And American Slavery; Jeffersonians Versus Federalists: Political Battles In The Election Of 1800; The Barbary Pirates And The U.s. Struggle For Recognition In International Commerce; The Virginia Dynasty, Sectionalism, And The Presidential Election Of 1812; The Charleston Slave Conspiracy Of 1822; Female Mill Workers In Lowell, Massachusetts; Andrew Jackson's War Against The Second Bank Of The United States; The Cherokee Nation, The U.s. Supreme Court, And The Question Of Removal; The Aroostook War And The Maine-new Brunswick Boundary Dispute; American Women