Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. The colonial period to Reconstruction. Is America exceptional? Was Columbus an imperialist? Was the Colonial Period a "golden age" for women in America? Did racism cause the enslavement of Africans in America? Was there a Great Awakening in mid-eighteenth-century America? Were the Founding Fathers democratic reformers? Did Thomas Jefferson abandon his political ideals in purchasing the Louisiana Territory? Was Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy motivated by humanitarian impulses? Were the abolitionists "unrestrained fanatics"? Did slaves exercise religious autonomy? Was the Mexican War an exercise in American imperialism? Did the Westward Movement transform the traditional roles of women in the mid-nineteenth century? Have historians overemphasized the slavery issue as a cause of the Civil War? Was the North's victory over the South inevitable? Did Abraham Lincoln free the slaves? Was it wrong to impeach Andrew Johnson? -- v. 2. Reconstruction to the present. Was it wrong to impeach Andrew Johnson? Was John D. Rockefeller a "robber baron"? Did nineteenth-century women of the West fail to overcome the hardships of living on the Great Plains? Were American workers in the Gilded Age conservative capitalists? Did William M. Tweed corrupt post-Civil War New York? Did yellow journalism cause the Spanish-American War? Did Booker T. Washington's philosophy and actions betray the interests of African Americans? Did the Progressives fail? Were the 1920s an era of social and cultural rebellion? Was the New Deal an effective answer to the Great Depression? Was Franklin Roosevelt a reluctant internationalist? Was the United States responsible for the Cold War? Were the 1950s America's "happy days"? Was America's escalation of the war in Vietnam inevitable? Did the Civil Rights Movement improve race relations in the United States? Will history forgive Richard Nixon? Were the 1980s a decade of greed?