Chapter 1: Migration, westward expansion, manifest destiny and the end of the era of the frontier
Chapter 2: The Spanish-American war, diplomacy and expansion
Chapter 3: Industrial growth, consumerism and migration in the development of American society and the economy
Chapter 4: Class divisions in American society and their social and political implications up to the 1920s
Chapter 5: Race relations during the progressive era, 1898-1917
Chapter 6: The development of isolationism in foreign policy in the 1920s and its domestic implications
Chapter 7: Growth of social conservatism, anti-consumerism and welfare policies during the 1920s and the 1930s
Chapter 8: Growth of racial tension and violence and its impact on the north and the south
Chapter 9: Implications of the Jazz Age
Chapter 10: The prohibition era (1920-1933), its impact on American society, and the growing influence of gangsters
Chapter 11: The role and importance of Hollywood and the Americanism of global culture
Chapter 12: The aims and application of the first and second New Deals
Chapter 13: The New Deal policies and opposition to them
Chapter 14: The arrogance of power: William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
Chapter 15: The arrogance of power: John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972)