Background for settlement
Puritans and Cavaliers: 1640-1676
Wars and insurrections: 1675-1690
America at the end of the Seventeenth century
The empire takes shape: 1689-1713
A half century of expansion: 1713-1763
The American mind in the Eighteenth century
Life in Eighteenth-century America
Imperial reorganization: 1763-1770
The road to independence: 1770-1776
An age of experiments: 1775-1788
Appendix: chief magistrates of the colonies and state.