The story of America: freedom and crisis from settlement to superpower

Abstract

Exploration and conquest - Cortes and Moctezuma American profile - Francesco-Giuseppe Bressani, James Axtell. The plantation colonies - the founding of Jamestown American profile - Squanto, Elliott West. Puritan New England - the witches of Salem American profile - Anne Hutchinson, Ann Braude. The American Revolution - the Boston massacre American profile - Samuel Adams, Jack N. Rakove. The new republic - the constitutional convention. Jeffersonian America - the Lewis and Clark expedition American profile - John Marshall, Joseph J. Ellis. Jacksonian America - the people's inauguration. Slavery in the Antebellum South - Nat Turner's revolt American profile - William Lloyd Garrison, Ira Berlin. Social reform in Antebellum America - the Seneca Falls Convention American profile - Harriet Beecher Store, Joan Hedrick. The deepening sectional conflict - the compromise of 1850 American profile - Matthew C. Perry, John W. Dower. The road to civil war - John Brown's raid American profile - Harriet Tubman, Catherine Clinton. Civil war and reconstruction - Sherman's march to the sea American profile - Thaddeus Stevens, Eric Foner. The American West - the Battle of the Little Bighorn American profile - Quanah Parker, Elliot West. The gilded age - the Pullman Strike American profile - John Fiske, David Levering Lewis. The crisis of the 1890s - the 1896 election. Becoming a world power - the Filipino revolt American profile - Henry Cabot Lodge, Thomas Fleming. The progressive era - the triangle fire American profile - Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Barone. The new era - Lindbergh's flight American profile - Robert A. Millikan, Daniel J. Kevles. The new deal - the hundred days American profile - Jim Braddock & Joe Louis, Geoffrey C. Ward. World War II - the attack of Pearl Harbour American profile - Wendell L. Willkie, Robert Dallek. The Cold War at home - the Hiss-Chambers Case American profile - Lillian Hellman, Alice Kessler-Harris. Pax Americana - the Cuban Missile Crisis American profile - George F. Kennan, Robert Dallek. The sixties - the march on Washington American profile - Coya Knutson, Richard Reeves. The seventies - the Watergate Crisis American profile - Jimmy Carter, William E. Leuchtenburg. The end of the Cold War - the last days of the Soviet Union. A new millennium - September 11, 2001.