Brave new world -- Say you want a revolution -- Growth of a nation: from the creation of the constitution to manifest destiny -- Apocalypse then: to civil war and reconstruction -- When monopoly wasn't a game: the growing empire from wild west to World War I -- Boom to bust to big boom: from the jazz age and the great depression to Hiroshima -- Commies, containment, and cold war: America in the fifties -- Torch is passed: from Camelot to Hollywood on the Potomac -- Appendix I: is the electoral college a party school? : a presidential election primer -- Appendix II: U.S. presidents and their administrations.