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The definitive narrative history of American slavery — Jamestown 1619 to Appomattox 1865 — Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, and the complete story of the institution that built a republic and nearly destroyed it. In August 1619, a Dutch warship arrived...
American Indian Wars history — Little Bighorn, Wounded Knee, the complete narrative history of America's conquest of the West, 1862-1890: Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Chief Joseph. In the winter of 1889-1890, a Lakota elder stood on the frozen ground of the...
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 —...
The epic narrative history of the American Revolution — from the Boston Tea Party and Lexington to Valley Forge, Yorktown, and the birth of the United States, 1763-1789. On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode to warn Massachusetts. By dawn...
Manifest destiny history — the complete narrative of American westward expansion, the Mexican-American War, the Oregon Trail, the California Gold Rush, and the continental empire that reshaped a republic, 1820-1861. In the summer of 1845, editor John Louis O'Sullivan...
Oregon Trail history, westward expansion, overland migration — 300,000 emigrants, the Donner Party, Mormon handcart tragedies, and the Native peoples displaced by two thousand miles of ruts, 1840-1870. In the spring of 1843, approximately a thousand people gathered at...
California Gold Rush history — from Sutter's Mill to statehood, the forty-niners, and the American West transformation of 1848-1860. How gold discovery triggered the largest voluntary migration in human history and destroyed a civilization. On January 24, 1848,...
Roaring Twenties history — the Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, the 1929 stock market crash, and the complete narrative history of America in the 1920s, 1919-1929. On the night of November 11, 1918, strangers embraced on Broadway and factory whistles blew...
McCarthyism history, Red Scare, HUAC, Cold War America — the complete narrative of the American inquisition 1947-1957: the Hollywood blacklist, the Rosenberg execution, Joseph Welch's question, Edward R. Murrow, and the democracy that survived by the narrowest of...
Reagan Revolution history — narrative of the conservative ascendancy, Reaganomics, the Cold War endgame, Iran-Contra, the AIDS crisis, and the political transformation that reshaped America, 1980-1988. On January 20, 1981, RonaldReagan said seven words that announced a...
The complete narrative history of Watergate — Richard Nixon, the cover-up, Deep Throat, impeachment, and the resignation that proved no president is above the law, 1972-1974. Shortly after midnight on June 17, 1972, security guard Frank Wills found tape covering a door...
The complete narrative history of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society — Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, and the unfinished fight to build a just America, 1963-1969. On the evening of July 2, 1964, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in the East...
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...
Harlem Renaissance history, Black cultural revolution, Great Migration, jazz age New York — the complete narrative of the New Negro movement 1919-1935: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Marcus Garvey, and W.E.B. Du Bois. They came by the hundreds 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...
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