Below you will find notes for the 12th edition of the A.P. U.S. History textbook, The American Pageant. The links provide detailed summaries on American/US history from one of the most popular US History textbooks in the United States. This edition was released in 2001, and it covers history in the United States from 33,000 B.C. to 2000.
- Chapter 1 - New World Beginnings
- Chapter 2 - The Planting of English America
- Chapter 3 - Settling the Northern Colonies
- Chapter 4 - American Life in the 17th Century
- Chapter 5 - Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
- Chapter 6 - The Duel for North America
- Chapter 7 - The Road to Revolution
- Chapter 8 - America Secedes from the Empire
- Chapter 9 - The Confederation and the Constitution
- Chapter 10 - Launching the New Ship of State
- Chapter 11 - The Triumphs and the Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic
- Chapter 12 - The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism
- Chapter 13 - The Rise of a Mass Democracy
- Chapter 14 - Forging the National Economy
- Chapter 15 - The Ferment of Reform and Culture
- Chapter 16 - The South and the Slavery Controversy
- Chapter 17 - Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
- Chapter 18 - Renewing the Sectional Struggle
- Chapter 19 - Drifting Toward Disunion
- Chapter 20 - Girding for War: The North and the South
- Chapter 21 - The Furnace of Civil War
- Chapter 22 - The Ordeal of Reconstruction
- Chapter 23 - Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
- Chapter 24 - Industry Comes of Age
- Chapter 25 - America Moves to the City
- Chapter 26 - The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution
- Chapter 27 - The Path of Empire
- Chapter 28 - America on the World Stage
- Chapter 29 - Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt
- Chapter 30 - Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
- Chapter 31 - The War to End War
- Chapter 32 - American Life in the "Roaring Twenties"
- Chapter 33 - The Politics of Boom and Bust
- Chapter 34 - The Great Depression and the New Deal
- Chapter 35 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War
- Chapter 36 - America in World War II
- Chapter 37 - The Cold War Begins
- Chapter 38 - The Eisenhower Era
- Chapter 39 - The Stormy Sixties
- Chapter 40 - The Stalemated Seventies
- Chapter 41 - The Resurgence of Conservatism
- Chapter 42 - The American People Face a New Century