Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Allen Weinstein is president of the Centre for Democracy and a winner of the United Nations Peace Medal. He chaired the American studies Program and has written several books, including Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. He is based in Washington. David Rubel has edited numerous works of American history, including The Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times. He is president of Agincourt Press and appears regularly on North East Public Radio. He is based in New York.