Worlds apart, to 1700 -- Contact and conquest, 1500-1700 -- Eighteenth-century revolutions1700-1800 -- Domestic economies and northern lives, 1800-1860 -- Family business: slavery and patriarchy, 1800-1860 -- Politics and power: the movement for woman's rights, 1800-1860 -- The Civil War, 1861-1865 -- In the age of slave emancipation, 1865-1877 -- The trans-Mississippi west, 1860-1900 -- New women -- The woman movement, 1880-1900 -- The new morality, 1880-1920 -- The Progressive Era, 1890-1920 -- The Jazz Age, 1920-1930 -- The Great Depression, 1930-1940 -- World war II home fronts, 1940-1945 -- The feminine mystique, 1945-1965 -- Civil rights and liberal activism, 1945-1975 -- The personal is political, 1960-1980 -- Endings and beginnings, 1980 to 2008.