Booknotes: Stories from American History

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• Booknotes - Stories from American History *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Introduction *
• Revolution and Founding 1776-1815 *
• A Shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party *
• Declaring Independence *
• Creating the Constitution *
• The Federalist Papers *
• Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings *
• The American and French Revolutions *
• The Contested Election of 1800 *
• The Hamiltonburr Duel *
• The Slave Ship Henrietta Marie *
• The Young Nation 1815-1850 *
• The First Generation of Americans *

• Booknotes - Stories from American History *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Introduction *
• Revolution and Founding 1776-1815 *
• A Shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party *
• Declaring Independence *
• Creating the Constitution *
• The Federalist Papers *
• Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings *
• The American and French Revolutions *
• The Contested Election of 1800 *
• The Hamiltonburr Duel *
• The Slave Ship Henrietta Marie *
• The Young Nation 1815-1850 *
• The First Generation of Americans *
• Celebrating Fifty Years of Independence *
• Tocqueville's Democracy in America *
• Slavery and the Civil War 1850-1865 *
• Buildup to the Civil War *
• Volunteer Soldiers *
• Women of the Slaveholding South *
• The Events of 1863 *
• Civil War Correspondents *
• Ulysses S. Grant's Military Career *
• Differing Perspecives on Abraham Lincoln *
• The Leadership of Robert E. Lee *
• Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy *
• Rebuilding America and the Gilded Age 1865-1901 *
• Frederick Law Olmsted and the Building of Central Park *
• The First Transcontinental Railroad *
• Grover Cleveland's Political Career *
• The Events of the 1890s *
• William Randolph Hearst and the Rise of Yellow Journalism *
• J. P. Morgan, National Banker *
• Progressive Era and Reaction 1901-1929 *
• The Crusades of Ida B. Wells *
• The Celebrity of Helen Keller *
• The 1918 Influenza Pandemic *
• Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten *
• The Scopes "Monkey" Trial *
• Al Smith and the 1928 Election *
• Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations *
• Charles Lindbergh's Reluctant Public Life *
• The Roosevelt Dynasty *
• Depression and War 1929-1945 *
• The Great Depression and World War II *
• The Early Days of Soviet Espionage *
• The Nurses Captured on Bataan *
• The Creation of the Withholding Tax *
• Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima *
• The World War II Generation *
• The Great Black Migration *
• Early Network News *
• Early Cold War 1945-1957 *
• Five - Men Who Shaped the Postworld War II World *
• The Unlikely Kennedy-Nixon Friendship *
• Lucius D. Clay and Postwar Berlin *
• Truman Defeats Dewey *
• The Rise and Fall of Joseph Mccarthy *
• The New York Intelligentsia *
• Social Transformation 1957-1975 *
• Orval Faubus and the Desegregation of Central High School *
• Lyndon Johnson and the 1960 Election *
• Robert Frost and the Kennedy Inauguration *
• The Cuban Missile Crisis *
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail *
• The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing *
• The Kennedy Years *
• The Warren Commission *
• The Rfk-Lbj Feud *
• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan *
• Stories from 1964 *
• John Marshall Harlan and the Warren Court *
• Getting to Know Richard M. Nixon *
• The Life and Career of Adam Clayton Powell Jr *
• Richard J. Daley and Chicago's Political Machine *
• Reporting from Vietnam *
• American Pows in Vietnam *
• The Culture Wars 1975-2000 *
• The Rise of the Neoconservatives *
• The Forgotten Radio Scripts of Ronald Reagan *
• The Political Lore of Tip O'Neill *
• A Symposium on Race *
• The Reagangorbachev Summits *
• Reagan, Bush, and the Press *
• Planning the Persian Gulf War *
• Last Days of the First Bush White House *
• Dan Rostenkowski's Fall from Power *
• A Half-Century of Meet the Press *
• Modern Presidents' Mothers *
• Appendix *
• Complete List of C-Span Booknotes (1989-2001) *
• Index *