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Author:

Ward, Kyle Roy, 1969-

Title:

History in the making : an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years / Kyle Ward.

Publisher:

New Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xxvi, 374 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Textbooks.--Textbooks.
United States--Evaluation.--Textbooks--Evaluation.
United States--Historiography

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-358) and index.

Contents:

Native American relations with the new settlers -- The Vikings -- Columbus's landing in the New World -- St. Augustine: America's first city -- Captain John Smith and Pocahontas -- The pilgrims land in the New World -- New Sweden -- Anne Hutchinson -- Witchcraft in the colonies -- George Washington and Fort Duquesne -- The Boston Massacre -- Lexington and Concord -- Massacre at Wyoming -- Women in the Revolutionary War -- Andrew Jackson and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend -- The Monroe Doctrine -- The Caroline Affair -- The Trail of Tears -- The Mormons -- The Alamo -- The start of the Mexican-American War -- Slavery in America -- Abraham Lincoln's character -- John Brown at Harpers Ferry -- The Dakota conflict of 1862 -- Sherman's march to the sea -- African Americans and Reconstruction -- Birth of the Ku Klux Klan -- Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike -- Immigration -- Women's suffrage -- The sinking of the USS Maine -- The Philippine-American war -- The Espionage Act -- The League of Nations -- Causes of the stock market crash -- Social Security Act -- The Bataan Death March -- Japanese internment -- Rosie the Riveter -- The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- The Marshall Plan -- Truman fires MacArthur -- McCarthyism -- Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement -- The Bay of Pigs -- The Laotian crisis -- The Gulf of Tonkin -- The counterculture -- Nixon in China -- The modern feminist movement -- The Camp David Accords -- The Reagan revolution.

ISBN:

9781595580443
9781595580443 (hardcover)
1595580441 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)65301619

LCCN:

2006008886

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

RMPB397 -- Bayard Public Library (Bayard)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

TXPC862 -- Traer Public Library (Traer)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)