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Complete Idiot's Guide to American History

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ISBN-10: 0028644646

ISBN-13: 9780028644646

Edition: 3rd 2003

Authors: Alan Axelrod

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This revised third edition offers a concise survey of the great events, personalities, and ideas that have created American history.
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List price: $18.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Alan Axelrod was born on August 25, 1952, in New York. He was educated at Northeastern Illinois University and University of Iowa. He is a leading writer about American history, and is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History. In his books, Axelrod presents the facts, details, and faces that have helped shape the history of the United States. Axelrod has served as a consultant to several museums and institutions. He has received numerous honors, including a National Cowboy Hall of Fame Award in 1991.

The New World
The First People (50000 B.C.E.-1500s C.E.)
People of the Land Bridge
45,000 Years of American History (Abridged Version)
South of the Border
Beyond the Aztec Horizon
Leif the Lucky
West to East (1451-1507)
The Round World Myth
The Weaver's Boy
First Blood
Carving Up
Three More Voyages
Why We're Not Called Columbia
New Blood for Old Spain (1400-1600s)
The Sword of the Conquistador
The First American Revolutions
From Black Legend to Black Robes
England's Errand in the Wilderness (1497-1608)
England Joins the Age of Discovery
A Colony Vanishes, Another Appears
A Rock and a Hard Place (1608-1733)
Promised Land
Massachusetts Bay
Rhode Island: Haven for the Heterodox
Maryland: Catholics Welcome
Pennsylvania: Quaker Colony
Georgia: Utopia, Prison, and Profit Center
Slave Country
Colonial Contenders (1608-1680s)
Champlain Sails In
The Sun King Beams
A Small Investment
Sweden in the Delaware Valley
New Netherland Becomes New York
Fires in the Wilderness (1636-1748)
New England Bleeds
The French and Indian Wars
Global War in the Backwoods (1749-1763)
The French and Indian War
Seven Years' Bad Luck
Rebellion of a Chief
The World Turned Upside Down
Invitation to a Tea Party (1763-1775)
King George Draws a Line
Taxation Without Representation
Bloody Boston
Tearing Apart and Coming Together
The Shot Heard 'Round the World
Washington Signs On
A Misnamed Battle Near Bunker Hill
The Olive Branch Spurned, a Declaration Written
Fanning the Flames of Liberty (1776-1783)
A Bad Bet
The British Lion Roars
Re-Crossing the Delaware
Saratoga Sunrise
Trouble in the City of Brotherly Love
Vive la France!
A Hard Forge
White War, Red Blood
More Action in the South
The Triumph at Yorktown
Building the House
From Many, One (1787-1797)
Bound by a Rope of Sand
Northwest Ordinance
We the People
Constitutional Convention
Father of His Country
Glorious Afterthought: The Bill of Rights
Hamilton Gets the Credit
Growing Pains (1798-1812)
Foreign Affairs
The Age of Jefferson
Tecumseh Raises the Hatchet
1812: A War for What? (1812-1814)
The War Hawks Roost
Three-Pronged Flop
The West in Peril
British Stranglehold
"We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Ours"
O, Say Can You See
Deliverance on Lake Champlain
An American Hero Is Born
Fanfare for the Common Man (1814-1836)
Good Feelings
Bad Feelings
The Age of Jackson
Trails of Tears (1817-1842)
Liberty and Union, Now and Forever
The Seminoles Say No
The Defiance of Black Hawk
Indian Removal
The House Divided
A Nation in Chains (1724-1857)
Against the American Grain
The Tortured Course of Compromise
The Dred Scott Disaster
Westward the Course (1834-1846)
The Plow and the Reaper
Martyrdom in Texas
Rolling West
"What Hath God Wrought?"
Destiny Manifested (1846-1860)
Halls of Montezuma
Of God and Gold
A Strange Flag over Sumter (1859-1862)
John Brown's Body
Bleak Transition
April 12, 1861, 4:30 A.M.
From Bull Run to antietam
Emancipation Proclaimed--More or Less
Bloody Road to Appomattox and Beyond (1863-1876)
Four Score and Seven
Vicksburg and Chattanooga
To Richmond
The March to the Sea
Mr. McLean's House
With Malice Toward Some
Enter "His Fraudulency"
Rebuilding the House
Sea to Shining Sea (1862-1878)
Home Sweet Home
Ruts and Rails
The Warpath (1862-1891)
Blue, Gray--and Red
Massacre in Minnesota
War for the Bozeman Trail
Hancock's War and Sheridan's Campaign
Struggle for the Black Hills
"I Will Fight No More Forever"
After Geronimo
Wounded Knee Ending
Exploitation and Enterprise (1869-1908)
An Empire of Cows
Law and Disorder
Cornering the Market
An Age of Invention
Octopus and Jungle (1877-1906)
The Golden Door
The Knights of Labor
Boss Tyranny
Chicago Meat
World Power
Over There (1898-1918)
Selling the News
He Kept Us Out of War
Booze, Boom, Bust (1918-1929)
Wilson's Dream
A Generation Lost and Found
America Goes Dry
Countdown to Black Tuesday
A New Deal and a New War (1930-1941)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Tyranny Abroad
The Epoch of FDR
Street Wars
Bloodlust
Saving the World (1941-1945)
"I Shall Return"
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
The Dark Genius of Erwin Rommel
Coral Sea and Midway
Island Hopping
On Mediterranean Shores
D-Day
Retaking Europe
Fat Man and Little Boy
Superpower
War Served Cold-and Hot (1944-1954)
Winning the Peace
Curtain of Iron
"Police Action" in Korea
From the Back of the Bus to the Great Society (1947-1968)
Executive Order 9981
The Dream Deferred
Or Does It Explode?
Sputnik and the New Frontier
JFK
LBJ
Nam (1946-1975)
History
American "Advisors"
Flaming Monks and the Fall of a "Friend"
Rolling Thunder
"Escalation" and "Vietnamization"
Hearts and Minds
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Nixon's War
Peace with Honor
Identity Crisis
Of Love, the Moon, and Dirty Tricks (1968-1974)
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
The Eagle Has Landed
Pentagon Papers
SALT, China, and the Middle East
CREEP
Women Rise, the Nation Drifts, Reagan Rallies (1963-1980)
A Woman's Place
Oil
The Japanese Miracle
Scary Cities, Crumbling Bridges
China Syndrome
The Fanatics
The Great Communicator
A New World Order?
A New Economy, a Plague, a Fallen Wall, and a Desert in Flames (1980-1991)
The Trickle-Down Solution
"Gay Plague" and a Blind Eye
"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"
A War Without Bullets
Ollie, Iran, and the Contras
Desert Shield and Desert Storm
E Pluribus Unum (1991-1999)
The Economy, Stupid
The New Right
The Age of Rage
And It's Still the Economy
We Fight for Peace
Democracy at the Turn of the Millennium (1991-2002)
American Trials
Of Wall Street Riches and the Great American Smokeout
Pillars of the Community
Terror and Democracy
Index