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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 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...
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...
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...
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 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 the American environmental movement — Rachel Carson, Earth Day, the Clean Air Act, and the unfinished fight to protect the natural world, 1962-2000. On June 22, 1969, a stretch of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire. Oil and...
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of the Noble Experiment — how America went dry in 1920, what came instead, and why the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in 1933.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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
America's war on drugs, mass incarceration, the opioid crisis, and the failure of drug prohibition — Nixon's 1971 declaration through the fentanyl epidemic, a complete narrative history of the costliest domestic policy in American history. On June 17, 1971, Richard...
Underground Railroad history — Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, the Fugitive Slave Acts, and the secret network of conductors and freedom seekers who defied slavery across 70 years of American history. On a moonless night in 1849, Harriet Tubman waded into the...
Spanish conquest history — Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, the fall of the Aztec and Inca empires, and the complete narrative history of how two men with fewer than 700 soldiers destroyed the largest civilizations in the Americas. In the spring of 1519, Tenochtitlán...
Ulysses S. Grant biography — Civil War general, Reconstruction president, and the untold civil rights story of America's most rehabilitated commander. In the spring of 1861, Grant was thirty-nine and going nowhere — a former Army officer clerking in his father's...
War of 1812 history — America's forgotten second war of independence: Tecumseh's confederacy, the burning of Washington, Fort McHenry, the Battle of New Orleans, and how a three-year conflict forged the American national identity. On the evening of August 24, 1814,...
The complete narrative history of the Great Migration — six million Black Americans, the Chicago Defender, Jim Crow's South, redlining, the Chicago blues, and the making of Black urban America, 1910-1970. Between 1910 and 1970, six million Black Americans left the...
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