User:إيان/United States rewrite sources and outline

This draft space is for establishing an outline and gathering reputable sources by section and subsection for the rewrite of the article United States at User:Rockstone35/United States, which is to be rewritten in WP:Summary style.

Please help identify the most authoritative sources for each section, giving preference to reputable tertiary sources such as textbooks and encyclopedias. If there is disagreement on the merit or appropriateness of a source, please discuss on the talk page with well-founded reasoning and sources where appropriate.

Similarly, we want to establish a clear and effective layout following guidances of Manual of Style/Layout, sectioning the content according to divisions widely used in reputable tertiary sources. إيان (talk) 15:46, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

History

 * The American Pageant
 * Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History

Before 1492

 * 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

American Revolution and the early federal republic (1765–1820)

 * 1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
 * The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
 * Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 by Gordon S. Wood

Growing disunion (1820-1861)

 * What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 by Daniel Walker Howe

Civil War and Reconstruction (1861–1876)

 * Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution – 1863–1877 by Eric Fosner