History in the Making

by Ward, Kyle

• ISBN13: 9781595582157
• ISBN10: 1595582150
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

In this compelling and utterly fresh look at American history, Kyle Ward shows how U.S. textbooks over the past two hundred years have described the same historical events in completely different ways. Following his acclaimed History Lessons, Ward juxtaposes excerpts from U.S. textbooks that span the life of the nation. From accounts of Christopher Columbus to the presidency of Ronald Reagan, History in the Making reveals the striking disparities in what succeeding generations of Americans have been taught about their country, exposing the sometimes humorous, sometimes sinister biases behind each account. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Editor's Note	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Exploration and Colonization
Native American Relations with the New Settlers	p. 3
The Vikings	p. 19
Columbus's Landing in the New World	p. 26
St. Augustine: America's First City	p. 30
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas	p. 37
The Pilgrims Land in the New World	p. 46
New Sweden	p. 53
Anne Hutchinson	p. 58
Witchcraft in the Colonies	p. 64
The American Revolution
George Washington and Fort Duquesne	p. 73
The Boston Massacre	p. 83
Lexington and Concord	p. 91
Massacre at Wyoming	p. 99
Women in the Revolutionary War	p. 103
The New Nation
Andrew Jackson and the Battle of Horseshoe Bend	p. 111
The Monroe Doctrine	p. 116
The Caroline Affair	p. 125
The Trail of Tears	p. 134
The Mormons	p. 140
The Alamo	p. 146
The Start of the Mexican-American War	p. 152
The Civil War Era
Slavery in America	p. 161
Abraham Lincoln's Character	p. 173
John Brown at Harpers Ferry	p. 178
The Dakota Conflict of 1862	p. 185
Sherman's March to the Sea	p. 188
African Americans and Reconstruction	p. 196
Birth of the Ku Klux Klan	p. 207
Industrialization, Imperialism, and War
Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike	p. 217
Immigration	p. 224
Women's Suffrage	p. 235
The Sinking of the USS Maine	p. 241
The Philippine-American War	p. 246
The Espionage Act	p. 253
The League of Nations	p. 257
The Great Depression and World War II
Causes of the Stock Market Crash	p. 269
Social Security Act	p. 275
The Bataan Death March	p. 279
Japanese Internment	p. 282
Rosie the Riveter	p. 285
The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	p. 289
The Cold War and Postwar America
The Marshall Plan	p. 295
Truman Fires MacArthur	p. 298
McCarthyism	p. 301
Desegregation and the Civil Rights Movement	p. 306
The Bay of Pigs	p. 309
The Laotian Crisis	p. 312
The Vietnam Era
The Gulf of Tonkin	p. 317
The Countercultre	p. 321
Nixon in China	p. 326
The Modern Feminist Movement	p. 329
The Camp David Accords	p. 333
The Reagan Revolution	p. 336
Notes	p. 341
Bibliography	p. 353
Permissions	p. 359
Index	p. 361
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