I Wish I'd Been There Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America

Name: I Wish I'd Been There Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America
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ISBN: 9781400096541

ISBN-10: 1400096545

ISBN-13: 9781400096541

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Authors: Byron Hollinshead

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"I Wish I'd Been There" brings together twenty of our most distinguished historians' responses to the question "What scene or incident in American history would you most liked to have witnessed--and why?" The answers illuminate crucial moments in our past and give readers a front-row seat at some of American history's most dramatic events. The Salem witch trials, the raid on Harper's Ferry, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the voting rights march on Selma, the beginnings of the Vietnam War--all of these and more are vividly recreated here by a stellar list of contributors, including Mary Beth Norton, Joseph Ellis, Carol Berkin, Geoffrey Ward, Robert Dallek, Jay Winik, Robert Cowley,…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.22" wide x 7.90" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction


A Say in Cahokia—AD1030


The Salem Witchcraft Trials


George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy


The McGillivray Moment


Meriwether Lewis on the Divide


The Corrupt Bargain


TheAmistadTrial


Election Philip B. Kunhardt III Jenny Lind’s


American Debut, 1850 Thomas Fleming WIth John Brown at Harpers Ferry


The Day Lincoln Was Shot


Chief Joseph Surrenders


La Follette Speaks against the War—1917


The Road to Butgneville—November 11, 1918


Trying John Scopes


Lost-Found Nation


The Last Meeting between


The Sick Man in the White House


JFK and RFK Meet about Vietnam


Memory, History, and the March on Washington


Lyndon Johnson Confronts George Wallace


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits