America in World History explores the core historical events, trends, and personalities from U.S. history within the context of global history and international relations.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: America in World History
• A
• Abolitionism in the Transatlantic World
• Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion
• Alien and Sedition Acts and Political Repression
• American Revolution and Global War
• Armed Neutrality and Lend Lease
• Articles of Confederation
• B
• Bacon's Rebellion and Colonial Resistance to the British
• Barbary Wars and U.S. Foreign Policy
• Benjamin Franklin and the American Enlightenment
• Bosnia and the Balkan Wars
• Boston Tea Party and the East India Company
• C
• California Gold Rush
• Camp David Accords (1978)
• China and Normalization
• Civil Rights Movement and Anti-Colonialism
• Civil War and Modern Combat
• Civil War Blockade Runners and U.S.-British Relations
• Civil War, Mexico, and French Imperialism
• Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
• Cold War
• Constitution and Bill of Rights
• Continental Congresses and Europe's Democratic Legacy
• Counterculture, 1960s
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• D
• Declaration of Independence in World History
• Détente
• Dutch Colonization and New Amsterdam
• E
• Early Native American Societies
• Empires at War, Eighteenth Century
• Enlightenment and Transatlantic Revolutions
• F
• Fall of the Berlin Wall and End of the Cold War
• Filibusters: Early U.S. Expansion in the Caribbean and Latin America
• First Red Scare
• French and Indian War
• French Colonization and the Fur Trade
• French Revolution and American Politics
• Frontier Culture: United States and Australia
• G
• Georgia and Penal Colonies
• Globalization and Free Trade
• Great Awakening and Evangelical Protestantism
• Great Depression, Global
• H
• Hawaii Annexation
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Humanitarian Crises and Ethnic Conflict, Post–Cold War
• I
• Immigration, 1800s
• Immigration, Late 1800s and Early 1900s
• Indian Removal and Colonial Suppression
• Industrial Revolution: Overview
• Iran-Contra and the Sandinistas
• Iran, Guatemala, and the CIA
• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Iraq War
• Israel: U.S. Recognition and Regional Response
• J
• Jamestown and Tobacco
• K
• King Philip's War and Native-Colonial Conflict
• Korean War
• L
• Latin American–U.S. Relations, Post–Cold War
• League of Nations and Isolationism
• Lexington and Concord and the “Shot Heard'Round the World”
• Louisiana Purchase
• Lusitania and Submarine Warfare
• M
• Manifest Destiny and European Imperialism
• Marshall Plan
• Massachusetts Bay and New England
• McCarthyism and Global Anti-Communism
• Mexico and the Caribbean: U.S. Interventions, 1898–1962
• Mid-Atlantic Colonies and Indentured Servitude
• Missouri Compromise
• Monroe Doctrine and Latin American Revolutions
• N
• Navigation Acts and British Mercantilism
• New Frontier and Alliance for Progress
• New Harmony and the Utopian Movement
• New World Order and Somalia
• North American Colonies and European Empires
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Nuclear Proliferation and North Korea
• O
• Oil States, Rise of
• Open Door Policy and Boxer Rebellion
• Oregon and U.S.-British Relations
• P
• Panama Canal
• Perry's Mission to Japan
• Persian Gulf War
• R
• Reaganomics and Thatcherism
• Reconstruction
• Russo-Japanese War and Portsmouth Conference
• S
• Salem, Witchcraft, and Religious Intolerance
• Second Great Awakening and the Missionary Movement
• Seneca Falls Convention and Women's Rights
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks
• Slavery and Race in the Colonies
• Social Welfare in the Postwar Era
• Southern Colonies and the Planter Class
• Space Race
• Spanish-American War
• Spanish Colonization
• Stagflation and the World Oil Market
• State Secession and National Independence Movements
• Stimson Doctrine and China
• Suez Canal Crisis and Arab Nationalism
• T
• Tariffs, Protectionism, and the International Economy
• Taxation Without Representation
• Terrorism, 1980s
• Terrorism: Overview
• Texas Annexation and the Mexican War
• Three Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, and the Americas, 1420s–1625
• Tiananmen Square
• Transatlantic Migration and Exchange, Early Colonial
• Transcendentalism and Literary Romanticism
• Transportation Revolution, Nineteenth Century
• Treaty of Versailles and Fourteen Points
• Truman Doctrine
• U
• United Nations and the New World Order
• V
• Vietnam War and the Limits of American Power
• W
• War of 1812
• War on Terror
• Watergate
• Wild West Shows and America's Global Image
• Woman Suffrage
• Women in Colonial Society
• World War I
• World War II
• Chronology
• Glossary
• Master Bibliography
• Books
• Web Sites