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Part 1 | The New World | 1 |
1 | The First People (50,000 B.C.E.-C.E. 1500s) | 3 |
People of the Land Bridge | 3 | |
45,000 Years of American History (Abridged Version) | 4 | |
South of the Border | 5 | |
Beyond the Aztec Horizon | 7 | |
Atlantic Presence | 8 | |
Leif the Lucky | 8 | |
2 | West to East (1451-1507) | 11 |
It's a Round, Round World | 11 | |
The Weaver's Boy | 12 | |
First Blood | 14 | |
Carving Up | 15 | |
Three More Voyages | 15 | |
Why We're Not Called Columbia | 16 | |
3 | New Blood for Old Spain (1400-1600s) | 17 |
The Sword of the Conquistador | 18 | |
The First American Revolutions | 22 | |
From Black Legend to Black Robes | 23 | |
4 | England's Errand in the Wilderness (1497-1608) | 25 |
O, Brave New World | 25 | |
A Colony Vanishes, Another Appears | 29 | |
5 | A Rock and a Hard Place (1608-1733) | 33 |
Promised Land | 34 | |
Massachusetts Bay | 36 | |
Rhode Island: Haven for the Heterodox | 37 | |
Maryland: Catholics Welcome | 38 | |
Pennsylvania: Quaker Colony | 38 | |
Georgia: Utopia, Prison, and Profit Center | 39 | |
6 | Colonial Contenders (1608-1680s) | 43 |
Champlain Sails In | 43 | |
The Sun King Beams | 45 | |
A Small Investment | 46 | |
Sweden in the Delaware VAlley | 49 | |
New Netherland Becomes New York | 49 | |
7 | Fires in the Wilderness (1636-1748) | 51 |
New England Bleeds | 51 | |
The French and Indians Wars | 54 | |
8 | Global War in the Backwoods (1749-1763) | 59 |
The French and Indian War | 60 | |
Seven Years' Bad Luck | 63 | |
Rebellion of a Chief | 65 | |
Part 2 | The World Turned Upside Down | 67 |
9 | Invitation to a Tea Party (1763-1775) | 69 |
King George Draws a Line | 70 | |
Taxation Without Representation | 71 | |
Bloody Boston | 73 | |
Tearing Apart and Coming Together | 73 | |
The Shot Heard 'Round the World | 75 | |
Washington Signs On | 76 | |
A Misnamed Battle Near Bunker Hill | 77 | |
The Olive Branch Spurned, a Declaration Written | 77 | |
10 | Fanning the Flames of Liberty (1776-1783) | 79 |
A Bad Bet | 79 | |
The British Lion Roars | 81 | |
Re-Crossing the Delaware | 81 | |
Saratoga Sunrise | 82 | |
Trouble in the City of Brotherly Love | 83 | |
Vive la France! | 83 | |
A Hard Forge | 83 | |
White War, Red Blood | 84 | |
More Action in the South | 84 | |
The Triumph at Yorktown | 85 | |
Part 3 | Building the House | 89 |
11 | From Many, One (1787-1797) | 91 |
Bound by a Rope of Sand | 92 | |
Northwest Ordinance | 92 | |
We the People | 93 | |
Constitutional Convention | 94 | |
Father of His Country | 96 | |
Glorious Afterthought: The Bill of Rights | 98 | |
Hamilton Gets the Credit | 99 | |
12 | Growing Pains (1798-1812) | 101 |
Foreign Affairs | 102 | |
The Age of Jefferson | 104 | |
Tecumseh Raises the Hatchet | 107 | |
13 | 1812: A War for What? (1812-1814) | 109 |
The War Hawks Roost | 109 | |
Three-Pronged Flop | 110 | |
The West in Peril | 111 | |
British Stranglehold | 112 | |
"We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Ours" | 112 | |
O, Say Can You See | 113 | |
Deliverance on Lake Champlain | 114 | |
An American Hero Is Born | 115 | |
14 | Fanfare for the Common Man (1814-1836) | 117 |
Good Feelings | 117 | |
Bad Feelings | 120 | |
The Age of Jackson | 122 | |
15 | Trails of Tears (1817-1842) | 125 |
Liberty and Union, Now and Forever | 126 | |
The Seminoles Say No | 127 | |
The Defiance of Black Hawk | 128 | |
Indian Removal | 129 | |
Part 4 | The House Divided | 135 |
16 | A Nation in Chains (1724-1857) | 137 |
Against the American Grain | 137 | |
The Tortured Course of Compromise | 140 | |
The Dred Scott Disaster | 143 | |
17 | Westward the Course (1834-1846) | 145 |
The Plow and the Reaper | 145 | |
Martyrdom in Texas | 147 | |
Rolling West | 148 | |
"What Hath God Wrought?" | 149 | |
18 | Destiny Manifested (1846-1860) | 151 |
Halls of Montezuma | 152 | |
Of God and Gold | 153 | |
19 | A Strange Flag over Sumter (1859-1862) | 159 |
John Brown's Body | 160 | |
Bleak Transition | 161 | |
April 12, 1861, 4:30 A.M. | 162 | |
From Bull Run to Antietam | 162 | |
Emancipation Proclaimed--More or Less | 167 | |
20 | Bloody Road to Appomattox and Beyond (1863-1876) | 169 |
Four Score and Seven | 170 | |
Vicksburg and Chattanooga | 172 | |
To Richmond | 173 | |
The March to the Sea | 174 | |
Mr. McLean's House | 175 | |
With Malice Toward Some | 176 | |
Enter "His Fraudulency" | 178 | |
Part 5 | Rebuilding the House | 179 |
21 | Sea to Shining Sea (1862-1878) | 181 |
Home Sweet Home | 181 | |
Ruts and Rails | 183 | |
22 | The Warpath (1862-1891) | 189 |
Blue, Gray--and Red | 189 | |
Massacre in Minnesota | 192 | |
War for the Bozeman Trail | 192 | |
Hancock's War and Sheridan's Campaign | 193 | |
Struggle for the Black Hills | 194 | |
"I Will Fight No More Forever" | 195 | |
After Geronimo | 196 | |
Wounded Knee Ending | 197 | |
23 | Exploitation and Enterprise (1869-1908) | 199 |
An Empire of Cows | 199 | |
Law and Disorder | 200 | |
Cornering the Market | 202 | |
An Age of Invention | 204 | |
24 | Octopus and Jungle (1877-1906) | 209 |
The Golden Door | 209 | |
The Knights of Labor | 211 | |
Boss Tyranny | 213 | |
Chicago Meat | 214 | |
Part 6 | World Power | 219 |
25 | Over There (1898-1918) | 221 |
Selling the News | 222 | |
He Kept Us Out of War | 224 | |
26 | Booze, Boom, Bust (1918-1929) | 231 |
Wilson's Dream | 232 | |
A Generation Lost and Found | 234 | |
America Goes Dry | 237 | |
Countdown to Black Tuesday | 238 | |
27 | A New Deal and a New War (1930-1941) | 241 |
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | 242 | |
Tyranny Abroad | 242 | |
The Epoch of FDR | 243 | |
Street Wars | 245 | |
Bloodlust | 246 | |
28 | Saving the World (1941-1945) | 249 |
"I Shall Return" | 250 | |
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree | 251 | |
The Dark Genius of Erwin Rommel | 251 | |
Coral Sea and Midway | 252 | |
Island Hopping | 252 | |
On Mediterranean Shores | 253 | |
D-Day | 253 | |
Retaking Europe | 255 | |
Fat Man and Little Boy | 257 | |
Part 7 | Superpower | 259 |
29 | War Served Cold--and Hot (1944-1954) | 261 |
Winning the Peace | 261 | |
Curtain of Iron | 264 | |
"Police Action" in Korea | 267 | |
30 | From the Back of the Bus to the Great Society (1947-1968) | 271 |
Executive Order 9981 | 272 | |
The Dream Deferred | 272 | |
Or Does It Explode? | 275 | |
Sputnik and the New Frontier | 276 | |
JFK | 277 | |
LBJ | 279 | |
31 | Nam (1946-1975) | 281 |
History | 282 | |
American "Advisors" | 283 | |
Flaming Monks and the Fall of a "Friend" | 283 | |
Rolling Thunder | 283 | |
"Escalation" and "Vietnamization" | 284 | |
Hearts and Minds | 285 | |
The Light at the End of the Tunnel | 286 | |
Nixon's War | 287 | |
Peace with Honor | 290 | |
Part 8 | Identity Crisis | 291 |
32 | Of Love, the Moon, and Dirty Tricks (1968-1974) | 293 |
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out | 293 | |
The Eagle Has Landed | 296 | |
Pentagon Papers | 296 | |
SALT, China, and the Middle East | 297 | |
CREEP | 299 | |
33 | Women Rise, the Nation Drifts, Reagan Rallies (1963-1980) | 303 |
A Woman's Place | 303 | |
Oil | 306 | |
The Japanese Miracle | 307 | |
Scary Cities, Crumbling Bridges | 308 | |
China Syndrome | 309 | |
The Fanatics | 310 | |
The Great Communicator | 311 | |
Part 9 | A New World Order? | 313 |
34 | A New Economy, a Plague, a Fallen Wall, and a Desert in Flames (1980-1991) | 315 |
The Trickle-Down Solution | 316 | |
"Gay Plague" and a Blind Eye | 319 | |
"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!" | 319 | |
Ollie, Iran, and the Contras | 322 | |
Desert Shield and Desert Storm | 323 | |
35 | Democracy (1991-1999) | 325 |
The Economy, Stupid | 325 | |
The New Right | 326 | |
The Age of Rage | 328 | |
And It's Still the Economy | 332 | |
We Fight for Peace | 333 | |
36 | E Pluribus Unum: Y2K (1991-) | 337 |
American Trials | 337 | |
Of Wall Street Riches and the Great American Smokeout | 341 | |
From Leave It to Beaver to the Internet | 347 | |
Appendixes | ||
A | The Presidents | 353 |
B | Further Reading | 357 |
Index | 359 |
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