Verfasst von:	Ward, Kyle Roy
Titel:	History in the making
Titelzusatz:	an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years
Verf.angabe:	Kyle Ward
Verlagsort:	New York, NY [u.a.]
Verlag:	New Press
Jahr:	2006
Umfang:	XXVI, 374 S
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-358) and index
Inhalt:	Native Americans relations with the new settlers -- The Vikings -- Columbus's landing in the New World -- St. Augustine-America's first city -- Captain John Smith and Pocahontas -- Tobacco in the colonies -- The pilgrims land in the New World -- New Sweden -- Anne Hutchinson -- Witchcraft in the colonies -- George Washington and Ft. Duquesne -- The Boston Massacre -- Lexington and Concord -- The Battle of Vincennes -- Massacre at Wyoming -- Women in the Revolutionary War -- Andrew Jackson and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend -- The Monroe Doctrine -- The Caroline Affair -- The Trail of Tears -- The Mormons -- The Alamo -- The start of the Mexican-American War -- War era -- Slavery in America -- Abraham Lincoln's character -- John Brown at Harpers Ferry -- The Dakota conflict of 1862 -- Sherman's march to the sea -- African-Americans and Reconstruction -- Birth of the KKK -- Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike -- Immigration -- Women's suffrage -- The sinking of the USS Maine -- The Philippine-American war -- The Espionage Act -- The League of Nations -- Causes of the stock market crash -- FDR's paralysis -- Social Security -- The Bataan Death March -- Japanese internment -- Rosie the Riveter -- The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- The Marshall Plan -- Truman fires MacArthur -- Mccarthyism -- Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement -- The Bay of Pigs -- The Laotian crisis -- The Vietnam era -- The Gulf of Tonkin -- The counterculture -- Nixon in China -- The modern feminist movement -- The Camp David Accords -- The Reagan revolution
ISBN:	1-59558-044-1
	978-1-59558-044-3
URL:	Verlag: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0610/2006008886.html
Schlagwörter:	(g)USA    / (s)Geschichtsschreibung    / (z)Geschichte 1800-
	(g)USA
Sprache:	eng
Sonstige Nr.:	Identnummer: 2006008886
Sach-SW:	Geschichtsunterricht / Schulbuch
	United States - History - Textbooks
	United States - History - Textbooks - Evaluation
	United States - Historiography
K10plus-PPN:	509738826