A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen ISBN-10: 1595230327 ISBN-13: 978-1595230324
Book Description: For at least thirty years, high school and college students have been taught to be embarrassed by American history. Required readings have become skewed toward a relentless focus on our country's darkest moments, from slavery to McCarthyism. As a result, many history books devote more space to Harriet Tubman than to Abraham Lincoln; more to My Lai than to the American Revolution; more to the internment of Japanese Americans than to the liberation of Europe in World War II. Now, finally, there is an antidote to this biased approach to our history. Two veteran history professors have written a sweeping, well-researched book that puts the spotlight back on America's role as a beacon of liberty to the rest of the world.
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Chapter #1 The city on the hill, 1492-1707
Chapter #2 Colonial adolescence, 1707-63
Chapter #3 Colonies no more, 1763-83
Chapter #4 A nation of law, 1776-89
Chapter #5 Small republic, big shoulders, 1789-1815
Chapter #6 The first era of big central government, 1815-36
Chapter #7 Red foxes and bear flags, 1836-48
Chapter #8 The house dividing, 1848-60
Chapter #9 The crisis of the Union, 1860-65
Chapter #10 Ideals and realities of Reconstruction, 1865-76
Chapter #11 Lighting out for the territories, 1861-90
Chapter #12 Sinews of democracy, 1876-96
Chapter #13 "Building best, building greatly," 1896-1912
Chapter #14 War, Wilson, and internationalism, 1912-20
Chapter #15 The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash, 1920-32
Chapter #16 Enlarging the public sector, 1932-40
Chapter #17 Democracy's finest hour, 1941-45
Chapter #18 America's "happy days," 1946-59
Chapter #20 The age of upheaval, 1960-74
Chapter #21 Retreat and resurrection, 1974-88
Chapter #22 The moral crossroads, 1989-2000
Chapter #23 America, world leader, 2000 and beyond.
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