American Realities Historical Episodes From the First Settlements to the Civil War

VOLUME I. From the First Settlements to the Civil War. Preface. 1. The Native Americans. October 11, 1492. 2. The First Euro-Americans. Norse Settlers in the New World. 3. The English Background. A Puritan Death: John and Thomasine Winthrop. 4. The British American. William Byrd in Two Worlds. 5. Divided Loyalties. Jonathan Boucher and the Pre-Revolutionary Crisis. 6. The American Revolution. 1776: The Continental Army in the Year of Independence. 7. Testing the Constitution. The Alien and Sedition Acts. 8. Republican Nationalism. The Lewis and Clark Expedition. 9. The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy. The Cherokee Removal. 10. Abolitionists and Antiabolitionists. William Lloyd Garrison and the Broadcloth Mob. 11. The Texas Revolution. Lorenzo de Zavala, Patriot. 12. Reform in the Early Republic. The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. 13. Manifest Destiny. Down the Santa Fe Trail with Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847. 14. Plantation Life. The Ordeal of Slavery. 15. The Civil War. Two Soldiers and Their Worlds. VOLUME II. From Reconstruction to the Present. Preface. 1. Beyond Emancipation. Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise. 2. The New Industrial Era. The Rise of Andrew Carnegie. 3. The Birth of Environmentalism. John Muir and the American Wilderness. 4. Imperial America. Dewey and Aguinaldo at Manila Bay. 5. New Immigrants. Russian Jews in the United States. 6. Expanding American Democracy. The Woman Suffrage Victory. 7. American Volunteers in World War I. The Lafayette Escadrille. 8. Modernity Versus Tradition. The Scopes Trial and the American Character. 9. The New Deal. Eleanor Roosevelt and the Politics of Compassion. 10. Total War. The Bombing of Hiroshima. 11. The Cold War at Home. Joseph McCarthy and Anticommunism. 12. The Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Road to Birmingham. 13. Turmoil on the Campuses. Berkeley in the Sixties. 14. The New Computer Age. Bill Gates and Microsoft. 15. Contemporary America. The Worlds of Osborne Jones.Youngs, J. William T. is the author of 'American Realities Historical Episodes From the First Settlements to the Civil War', published 2000 under ISBN 9780321070944 and ISBN 0321070941.