Uses statistical information and primary source material to describe daily life in eighteenth-century America and demonstrate the influences of the Revolutionary War and frontier expansion on the country.

Climate, natural history, and historical geography -- Native American life -- Chronology, 1763-1800 -- The economy -- Population statistics -- Diet and health -- Religion -- Government -- The states and territories -- The cities -- Prominent and representative Americans -- Education -- Arts and letters -- Science and technology -- Architecture -- Holidays and calendars -- Popular life and recreations -- Crime and violence -- A documentary sampler of revolutionary American life.