Roots of american culture and identity - Connecting the present with the past

The land : the continental dimension – The people and their origins : The ethnic Myth in the U.S.A. – American Religion : The Practical Strain – Westward Expansion : The Inexorable Course of Empire – The growth of American Democracy : An Incomplete Process – The supremacy of industry and business and the battles for reform : Conservation versus liberalism – Rhetoric and reality in the use of world power : National security is still the issue.