America, the last best hope. Volume I, From the age of discovery to a world at war 1492-1914 9781595550552, 9781595551115, 9781595551818, 0471151653

Table of contents :
Westward the course (1492-1607): Columbus --
The scramble for empire --
The rise of England --
A city upon a hill (1607-1765): Coming to America --
The great migration --
Expanding British rule --
Britain and France: conflict for a continent --
Religious and intellectual awakenings --
Britain and France: the final conflict --
The greatest revolution (1765-1783): Stamping out unfair taxes --
A total separation --
The shot heard 'round the world --
A continental war --
The French alliance --
The world turned upside down --
A dangerous place --
Reflection and choice: framing the Constitution (1783-1789): A critical period --
Madison --
Ratification --
The new republic (1789-1801): "The sacred fire of liberty" --
Madison's Bill of Rights --
Hamilton's new system --
Hurricane Genet --
John Adams --
The Revolution of 1800 --
The Jeffersonians (1801-1829): An empire for liberty --
Lewis & Clark --
Plots, trials, treason --
Jefferson's last years --
Mr. Madison's war --
The Battle of New Orleans --
An era of good feeling --
The Missouri Compromise --
The Monroe Doctrine --
The election of 1824 --
Adams and Jefferson die --
Jackson and democracy (1828-1849): From caucus to raucous: the election of 1828 --
The Peggy Eaton affair --
John C. Calhoun --
Our federal union must be preserved --
The tragedy of Indian removal --
Jackson's war on the bank --
"Old man eloquent" --
Tippecanoe and Tyler, too! --
Great Harry of the West --
Reannexing Texas and reoccupying Oregon --
The halls of Montezuma. The rising storm (1849-1861): California and the compromise of 1850 --
Railroads and reform --
"Bleeding Kansas" --
Dred Scott --
Lincoln meets Douglas --
John Brown and Harpers Ferry --
The election of 1860 --
Freedom's fiery trial (1860-1863): Secession winter (1860-61) --
Fort Sumter --
Civil War --
The Trent Affair --
1862: Year of Jubilee --
Emancipation --
A new birth of freedom (1863-1865): Gettysburg: The Confederacy's high-water mark --
The agony of Abraham Lincoln --
"Long Abraham a little longer" --
The Union victorious --
To bind up the nation's wounds (1865-1877): Pass in review --
Thunder on the borders: South and North --
Reconstruction and renewal --
Impeachment --
"Let us have peace" --
A tragic divorce in freedom's ranks --
The spirit of 1876 --
A dangerous dispute --
An age more golden than gilded? (1877-1897): Reform, Roosevelts and reaction --
Grover Cleveland: "Tell the truth!" --
The Golden Door --
Winning the west --
A social gospel --
A cross of gold --
From the new world --
The American dynamo: shadowed by war (1897-1914): "A splendid little war" --
Rough Rider politics --
Teddy Roosevelt in the White House, and the Square Deal --
Wielding the big stick --
The William Howard Taft interlude --
Unsinkable, unthinkable --
1912 election --
Woodrow Wilson and the new freedom --
"The lights are going out ..."

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