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020 _a978-1-59558-044-3
020 _a1-59558-044-1
040 _aAM-YeNLA
041 0 _aeng
100 1 _aWard, Kyle
_d1969-
245 1 0 _aHistory in the making :
_ban absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years /
_cby Kyle Ward.
260 _aNew York ;
_aLondon :
_bNew Press,
_c2006.
300 _axxvi, 374 p. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _aWith hard- and supercover
504 _aNotes: pp. 341-351; bibliography: pp. 353-360; index: pp. 361-374
505 0 _aCont.: 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.
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