Includes chapters on the following: Population and family in early America; Socio-economic development of the colonies; Religion before the Revolution; The Amerindian population in 1763; The Seven Years' War and its political legacy; The Grenville program, 1763-1765; The Stamp Act crisis; The Townshend Acts crisis, 1767-1770; The West and the Amerindians, 1756-1776;
Loyalism and neutrality; Opposition in Britain; Common sense; The Declaration of Independence; Bill of rights and the first ten commandments to the Constitution; The Articles of Confederation, 1775-1783; The Continental Army; The First United States Navy; The home front during the War for Independence; Resistance to the American Revolution; Diplomacy of the Revolution, to 1783; The West: territory, states, and confederation; Currency, taxation, and finance, 1775-1787;
Foreign relations, after 1783; Slavery and anti-slavery; Amerindians and the new republic; The impact of the Revolution on the role, status, and experience of women; The impact of the Revolution on education; The impact of the Revolution on social problems; The impact of the Revolution on church and state; The Federal Convention and the Constitution; The debate over ratification of the Constitution; Great Britain in the aftermath of the American Revolution; The American Revolution in Canada; The American Revolution and other European countries; The cultural effects of the Revolution; Medicine before and after the Revolution; The construction of race in republican America.
