From the Book - Sixth edition.
1. America in the world, to 1650
2. Colonial worlds, 1607-1750
3. Mothers and daughters of the Revolution, 1750-1800
4. Pedestal, loom, and auction block, 1800-1860
5. Shifting boundaries : expansion, reform, and Civil War, 1840-1865
6. Reconstructing women's lives North and South, 1865-1900
7. Women in an expanding nation : consolidation of the West, mass immigration, and the crisis of the 1890s
8. Power and politics : women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
9. Change and continuity : women in prosperity, Depression, and war, 1920-1945
10. Beyond the feminine mystique : women's lives, 1945-1965
11. Modern feminism and American society, 1965-1980
12. U.S. women in a global age, 1980-present.