The articles range from 2,100-word essays to 35-word identifications and reflect recent approaches to social history while retaining more traditional topics. They provide information on family life, community and urban history, popular culture, and the history of women and ethnic groups. Support material includes texts of defining documents, lists of officials, a chronology from the first European contacts to 1998, and over 400 black-and- white illustrations. Well referenced and cross-referenced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

General Editor and Advisory Board	viii
Contributors	ix
Introduction	xiii
A-Z Text	1
Appendix
Declaration of Independence	1049
Constitution of the United States	1051
Presidents of the United States	1060
Vice Presidents of the United States	1062
Chief Justices of the United States	1064
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court	1065
States of the United States	1066
Timetables of American History
Opening of the New World: To 1699	1068
The Colonial Experience: 1700-1799	1070
Expansion and War: 1800-1899	1072
America on the World Stage: 1900-1949	1074
Era of the Superpowers: 1950-1998	1076
Illustration Credits	1078
Index	1081

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