The aspirant state, 1754-1833 -- The British and Americans defeat the French in America, 1754-1774 -- The Americans and French defeat the British in America, 1774-1789 -- Launching the new republic in the world, 1789-1809 -- America, master of the hemisphere, 1809-1833 -- The predestined people, 1833-1917 -- The house divided, 1833-1854 -- The agony of the American union, 1854-1865 -- The new birth of freedom, 1865-1898 -- A new great power in the world, 1898-1917 -- The indispensable country, 1917-1951 -- The crisis of democracy: war, isolationism, and depression, 1917-1933 -- Toward America's rendezvous with destiny, 1933-1941 -- The victory of democracy, 1941-1944 -- From world war to cold war, 1945-1951 -- The supreme nation, 1951-1992 -- The red scare and the free world, 1951-1957 -- Peace and prosperity, 1957-1965 -- Vietnam and détente, the beginning of the end of the cold war, 1965-1973 -- To the summit of the world, 1973-1992 -- Epilogue : Waiting for the future, 1992-2011.