History in the making : an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years /
Ward, Kyle 1969-
History in the making : an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years / by Kyle Ward. - New York ; London : New Press, 2006. - xxvi, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
With hard- and supercover
Notes: pp. 341-351; bibliography: pp. 353-360; index: pp. 361-374
Cont.: Native American relations with the new settlers -- The Vikings -- Columbus's landing in the New World -- St. Augustine: America's first city -- Captain John Smith and Pocahontas -- The pilgrims land in the New World -- New Sweden -- Anne Hutchinson -- Witchcraft in the colonies -- George Washington and Fort Duquesne -- The Boston Massacre -- Lexington and Concord -- Massacre at Wyoming -- Women in the Revolutionary War -- Andrew Jackson and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend -- The Monroe Doctrine -- The Caroline Affair -- The Trail of Tears -- The Mormons -- The Alamo -- The start of the Mexican-American War -- Slavery in America -- Abraham Lincoln's character -- John Brown at Harpers Ferry -- The Dakota conflict of 1862 -- Sherman's march to the sea -- African Americans and Reconstruction -- Birth of the Ku Klux Klan -- Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike -- Immigration -- Women's suffrage -- The sinking of the USS Maine -- The Philippine-American war -- The Espionage Act -- The League of Nations -- Causes of the stock market crash -- Social Security Act -- The Bataan Death March -- Japanese internment -- Rosie the Riveter -- The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- The Marshall Plan -- Truman fires MacArthur -- McCarthyism -- Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement -- The Bay of Pigs -- The Laotian crisis -- The Gulf of Tonkin -- The counterculture -- Nixon in China -- The modern feminist movement -- The Camp David Accords -- The Reagan revolution.
978-1-59558-044-3 1-59558-044-1
United States--History--Textbooks
United States--History--Evaluation--Textbooks
United States--Historiography
History in the making : an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years / by Kyle Ward. - New York ; London : New Press, 2006. - xxvi, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
With hard- and supercover
Notes: pp. 341-351; bibliography: pp. 353-360; index: pp. 361-374
Cont.: Native American relations with the new settlers -- The Vikings -- Columbus's landing in the New World -- St. Augustine: America's first city -- Captain John Smith and Pocahontas -- The pilgrims land in the New World -- New Sweden -- Anne Hutchinson -- Witchcraft in the colonies -- George Washington and Fort Duquesne -- The Boston Massacre -- Lexington and Concord -- Massacre at Wyoming -- Women in the Revolutionary War -- Andrew Jackson and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend -- The Monroe Doctrine -- The Caroline Affair -- The Trail of Tears -- The Mormons -- The Alamo -- The start of the Mexican-American War -- Slavery in America -- Abraham Lincoln's character -- John Brown at Harpers Ferry -- The Dakota conflict of 1862 -- Sherman's march to the sea -- African Americans and Reconstruction -- Birth of the Ku Klux Klan -- Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike -- Immigration -- Women's suffrage -- The sinking of the USS Maine -- The Philippine-American war -- The Espionage Act -- The League of Nations -- Causes of the stock market crash -- Social Security Act -- The Bataan Death March -- Japanese internment -- Rosie the Riveter -- The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- The Marshall Plan -- Truman fires MacArthur -- McCarthyism -- Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement -- The Bay of Pigs -- The Laotian crisis -- The Gulf of Tonkin -- The counterculture -- Nixon in China -- The modern feminist movement -- The Camp David Accords -- The Reagan revolution.
978-1-59558-044-3 1-59558-044-1
United States--History--Textbooks
United States--History--Evaluation--Textbooks
United States--Historiography