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The definitive narrative history of American immigration — Ellis Island, the great wave, Chinese exclusion, the 1924 quota law, and the Hart-Celler Act that remade the nation, 1880-1965. On April 17, 1907, 11,747 immigrants passed through Ellis Island in a single day —...
Texas Revolution history — the Alamo, Sam Houston, Santa Anna, and the thirteen-day siege that made the Lone Star Republic, 1835-1836. Narrative American military history. On October 2, 1835, settlers in Gonzales hoisted a homemade flag bearing a brass cannon and four...
Cuban Missile Crisis history — Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the thirteen days in October 1962 that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The complete narrative of ExComm, Black Saturday, and the secret deal that ended the standoff. On the morning of October 14,...
The complete narrative history of the Korean War — Truman, MacArthur, Inchon, the Chosin Reservoir, military integration, and America's first limited war of the nuclear age, 1950-1953. President Truman called it a police action, and the phrase stuck in the craw of...
Prohibition history: Al Capone, speakeasies, the Anti-Saloon League, and the complete narrative of the Noble Experiment — how America went dry in 1920, what came instead, and why the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in 1933. At midnight on January 17, 1920, the United...
The complete narrative history of America's Gilded Age — Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, the robber barons, the Haymarket bomb, and the birth of modern America, 1870-1900. On May 24, 1883, President Chester Arthur stood at the Brooklyn Bridge as 150,300...
Panama Canal history — American empire, engineering triumph, and the human cost of the Big Ditch, 1903-1914. The complete narrative of how the United States built the canal, sponsored a revolution, and created a colonial zone. In 1880, Ferdinand de Lesseps arrived in...
Transcontinental railroad history, Union Pacific Central Pacific 1863-1869, Chinese and Irish workers, Credit Mobilier scandal, Promontory Summit — the complete narrative history of building America's iron road. At 12:47 p.m. on May 10, 1869, the telegraph operator at...
Women's suffrage movement history, Seneca Falls to Nineteenth Amendment 1848-1920, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul — the complete 72-year narrative history of American women's fight for the vote. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee legislator Harry Burn...
American West history — cowboys, cattle drives, the open range, Black cowboys, vaqueros, the frontier myth debunked: the complete narrative history of the cattle kingdom, 1865-1900. For roughly two decades after the Civil War, the Great Plains were the most...
The complete narrative history of America's Progressive Era — Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, the muckrakers, and the unfinished fight to tame American capitalism, 1900-1920. In the autumn of 1902, a forty-four-year-old journalist named Ida Tarbell sat in the...
The complete narrative history of the Great Depression, 1929–1941 — Black Tuesday, the New Deal, FDR, the Dust Bowl Okies, and the human cost of America's darkest decade. On October 29, 1929, 16.4 million shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange. General...
The complete narrative history of America's Industrial Revolution — Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, the robber barons, the factory workers, and the making of modern America, 1865-1920. In 1865, the United States was a nation of farms. By 1910, it produced more...
Native American history from first migrations to today's 574 federally recognized nations — a complete narrative of Indigenous peoples of North America: mound builders, Haudenosaunee democracy, Trail of Tears, boarding schools, Red Power, and tribal sovereignty. In the...
The complete narrative history of the Declaration of Independence — Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and how 56 signers risked their lives to produce the most revolutionary document in American history. On June 11, 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at a...
Iraq War history — Desert Storm, the Gulf War, and the road to the 2003Iraq invasion. Narrative American military history of the Middle East, 1990-2003. Colin Powell, George H.W. Bush, and the decisions that shaped America's longest wars. At two in the morning on...
The complete narrative history of the Dust Bowl, 1930–1940 — Black Sunday, the Okies, Hugh Bennett's soil conservation battle, and the Great Plains environmental catastrophe that reshaped America. On the morning of April 14, 1935, the sky over the Texas and Oklahoma...
The complete narrative history of World War II — Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the atomic bomb, Rosie the Riveter, the Double V Campaign, and the war that made modern America, 1939-1945. On September 1, 1939, fifty-three German divisions crossed the Polish frontier at dawn.The...
September 11 history — al-Qaeda, the 9/11 attacks, the war on terror, and the decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001-2011. Narrative American history of how one Tuesday morning remade the United States. The sky over the Northeast onSeptember 11, 2001, was a...
Lewis and Clark history, Corps of Discovery narrative, Sacagawea, Louisiana Purchase, American exploration 1804-1806 — the complete story of the expedition that mapped a continent. On June 13, 1805, MeriwetherLewis crested a rise and heard the Great Falls of the...
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