The Landmark History of the American People From Plymouth to the Moon

Chapters

• 1 The Puritans: Love God and Fight the Devil
• 2 The Quakers Refuse to Fight
• 3 The Woes of a Charity Colony
• 4 How British Laws Made Smugglers and Pirates
• 5 A Scrambling Place- for Refuge and for Profit
• 6 How a Few Gentlemen Ruled Virginia
• 7 How the Ocean Tied Some to England
• 8 How the Ocean Led Others Out to the World
• 9 The British Take a Collision Course
• 10 Americans Declare Their Independence
• 11 Why the British Lost the War
• 12 New States or a New Nation?
• 13 The Add-a-State Plan
• 14 An Empire for Liberty
• 15 America's Leading Import: People
• 16 Instant Cities
• 17 Every Man Has His Own Carpenter
• 18 American Know-how
• 19 Do-It-Yourself Doctors
• 20 Wagon-Towns Moving West
• 21 Haste Makes Democracy
• 22 Political Parties for All
• 23 Slavery Conquers the South
• 24 The Splitting of a Nation
• 25 A National Tug-of-War
• 26 The First Shot is Fired
• 27 Everybody's War
• 1 Cattlemen and Cowboys
• 2 Rock Oil to Light Up the World
• 3 City Goods for Country Customers
• 4 One Price for Everybody!
• 5 A Democracy of Clothing
• 6 Things by the Millions
• 7 To Punish-or to Forgive?
• 8 A Two-Nation South
• 9 Filling the Land
• 10 Crowding the Cities
• 11 Whose Country? Oldcomers and Newcomers
• 12 Reformers and Self-Helpers
• 13 Everybody Shares the News
• 14 Letters in Every Mailbox
• 15 The Sun is No Longer Boss
• 16 Company Towns and Garden Cities
• 17 Bridge-Building Heroes
• 18 Going Up!
• 19 The Farmers Find a Voice
• 20 From Umpire to Guardian
• 21 Who Killed Prosperity?
• 22 Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
• 23 Who Was Left Out?
• 24 A Triumph for Freedom
• 25 Ocean Paths to World Power
• 26 How Submarines Killed the Freedom of the Seas
• 27 Winning a War, Losing a Peace
• 28 The Battlefield is Everywhere
• 29 The Exploding World of the Atom
• 30 "Little" Wars and Big Risks
• 31 Windows to the World
• 32 Footprints on the Moon
• 33 No More Secrets: The World is Watching