The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History

WHO'S ON FIRST? (50,000 B.C.-A.D. 1500S)......Page 2 COLUMBUS DAYS (1451-1507)......Page 9 NEW SPAIN, SAME OLD SPANIARDS (1400-1600S)......Page 15 ENGLAND'S ERRANDS (1497-1608)......Page 22 A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE (1608-1733)......Page 29 THEY COULD'VE BEEN CONTENDERS (1608-1680S)......Page 36 FIRES IN THE WILDERNESS (1636-1748)......Page 43 GLOBAL WAR--AMERICAN STYLE (1749-1763)......Page 50 INVITATION TO A TEA PARTY (1763-1775)......Page 57 THE FIRES OF LIBERTY (1776-1783)......Page 66 FROM MANY, ONE (1787-1797)......Page 75 1812 OVERTURE (1798-1812)......Page 84 WASHINGTON BURNS, A NATION IS REBORN (1812-1814)......Page 91 FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN (1814-1836)......Page 98 TRAILS OF TEARS (1817-1842)......Page 106 CHAINS, WHIPS, AND HEARTBREAK (1724-1857)......Page 113 LOOKING WEST (1834-1846)......Page 120 DESTINY (1846-1860)......Page 126 STRANGE FLAG OVER SUMTER (1859-1862)......Page 132 BLOODY ROAD TO APPOMATTOX AND BEYOND (1863-1876)......Page 141 SEA TO SHINING SEA (1862-1878)......Page 150 "THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN..." (1862-1891)......Page 158 FROM PANIC TO EMPIRE (1869-1908)......Page 167 OCTOPUS AND JUNGLE (1877-1906)......Page 176 OVER THERE (1898-1918)......Page 184 JAZZED, BOOZED, AND BUSTED FLAT (1918-1929)......Page 193 A NEW DEAL AND A NEW WAR (1930-1941)......Page 201 THE "GOOD WAR" (1941-1945)......Page 208 A COLD WAR AND A KOREAN WAR (1944-1954)......Page 217 FROM THE BACK OF THE BUS TO THE GREAT SOCIETY (1947-1968)......Page 226 VIETNAM (1946-1975)......Page 235 OF LOVE, THE MOON, AND DIRTY TRICKS (1968-1974)......Page 244 WOMEN, CRISIS, AND A CALL TO THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR (1963-1980)......Page 252 A NEW ECONOMY, A PLAGUE, A FALLENWALL, AND A DESERT IN FLAMES (1980-1991)......Page 260 DEMOCRACY (1992-)......Page 270