In the beginning : the early arrivals and the young colonies -- Freedom : what a revolutionary idea! -- Welcome to the new nation -- The war of 1812...and 1813...and 1814...and 1815 -- 1815-1865 : growing pains -- There's nothing civil about war -- Abraham Lincoln : days of dreams and nightmares -- Before there was law and order, there was the wild West! -- The inventors : lots of new stuff -- 1900-1916 : don't get stuck in the bath tub! -- World War I : from Pancho to Paris -- Between the wars, 1918-1941 : other than the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and Hitler...things were pretty good -- World War II : that German guy sure has a funny mustache! -- 1945-1949 : the forties are finished and Dewey lost again -- The fifties : in the event of a nuclear attack, get under a table! -- It's the sixties : far out, man -- The seventies : there were crooks in the White House and everyone had disco fever! -- The eighties : the president looks just like this guy that I saw the other night in an old movie! -- The nineties : denials, trials and the .com market! -- The 21st century : terrorism and Twitter -- Never follow a legend -- Epilogue: The last word.
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