| October 12, 1492 In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-two Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue | p. 1 |
| April 29, 1607 The Establishment of the First Permanent English Colony in North America | p. 5 |
| Autumn 1620 The Mayflower Arrives in America | p. 9 |
| 1754-1763 The French and Indian War | p. 13 |
| The 1760s and 1770s Events Leading to War | p. 17 |
| July 4, 1776 The Declaration of Independence | p. 2 |
| October 19, 1781 The British Surrender at Yorktown | p. 23 |
| September 17, 1787 The Signing of the United States Constitution | p. 27 |
| 1803 The Louisiana Purchase | p. 31 |
| The War of 1812 | p. 35 |
| 1836 Remember the Alamo | p. 39 |
| 1861-1865 The War Between the States | p. 43 |
| January 1, 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation | p. 47 |
| April 9, 1865 Surrender at Appomattox | p. 51 |
| April 14, 1865 The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | p. 55 |
| 1898 The Spanish-American War | p. 59 |
| September 5, 1901 President McKinley's Assassination | p. 63 |
| December 17, 1903 The Wright Brothers' First Successful Flight | p. 67 |
| April 18, 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake | p. 71 |
| April 1912 The Sinking of the Titanic | p. 75 |
| 1914-1918 World War I: "The War to End All Wars" | p. 79 |
| October 29, 1929 The Stock Market Crash | p. 83 |
| December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor: 'A Date Which Will Live in Infamy' | p. 87 |
| June 6, 1944 D-Day | p. 91 |
| August 6, 1945 Hiroshima: The First Atomic Bomb is Dropped | p. 95 |
| 1954 Supreme Court Decision: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas | p. 99 |
| December 1955 Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Public Bus | p. 103 |
| October 4, 1957 Sputnik Satellite Is Launched | p. 107 |
| October 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis | p. 111 |
| November 22, 1963 The Assassination of John F. Kennedy | p. 115 |
| January 1968 The Tet Offensive | p. 119 |
| April 4, 1968 and June 5, 1968 The Assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy | p. 123 |
| July 20, 1969 The First Man Walks on the Moon | p. 129 |
| May 1970 The Shootings at Kent State University | p. 133 |
| 1972 Détente: President Nixon in Russia and China | p. 137 |
| August 9, 1974 Richard Nixon Resigns as President | p. 141 |
| November 4, 1979-January 20, 1981 The Iranian Hostage Crisis | p. 145 |
| January 28, 1986 The Challenger Disaster | p. 149 |
| 1989 The Fall of Soviet Communism | p. 153 |
| August 2, 1990-February 28, 1991 The Persian Gulf War | p. 161 |
| April 19, 1995 The Oklahoma City Bombing | p. 165 |
| September 11, 2001 The Terrorist Attacks on America | p. 169 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 177 |
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