The American Experience
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Table of Contents

UNIT 1: Beginnings–1750
(pp. 2–123)

Part 1: Meeting of Cultures
Part 2: Focus on Literary Forms: Narrative Accounts
Part 3: The Puritan Influence

UNIT 2: A Nation Is Born (1750–1800)
(pp. 124–225)

Part 1: Voices for Freedom
Part 2: Focus on Literary Forms: Speeches
Part 3: Defining an American

UNIT 3: A Growing Nation (1800–1870)
(pp. 228–459)

Part 1: Fireside and Campfire
Part 2: Shadows of the Imagination
Part 3: The Human Spirit and the Natural World
Part 4: Focus on Literary Forms: Poetry

UNIT 4: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion (1850–1914)
(pp. 460–701)

Part 1: A Nation Divided
Part 2: Focus on Literary Forms: Diaries, Journals, and Letters
Part 3: Forging New Frontiers
Part 4: Living in a Changing World

UNIT 5: Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent (1914–1946)
(pp. 704–955)

Part 1: Facing Troubled Times
Part 2: Focus on Literary Forms: The Short Story
Part 3: From Every Corner of the Land

UNIT 6: Prosperity and Protest (1946–Present)
(pp. 958–1349)

Part 1: Literature Confronts the Everyday
Part 2: Focus on Literary Forms: Essay
Part 3: Social Protest

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