Who We Are in the Americas : And What to Do about It Now

by Varick, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780974541600
• ISBN10: 0974541605
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Varick Art & Books

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(18)
The Peopling of America	18	(38)
Exploration of North America	26	(1)
Christopher Columbus Finds Something	27	(4)
There Goes the Neighborhood, the European Invasion of the Americas	31	(14)
Colonization of the New World	45	(11)
The Creation of the United States and the Revolutionary War	56	(6)
Slavery and Genocide	62	(40)
1860 to the Start of the Civil War	79	(13)
``I Am Tired of Talk That Comes to Nothing''	92	(10)
The Twentieth Century	102	(86)
World War I	107	(10)
World War II	117	(1)
Adolf Hitler, 1889--1945	118	(2)
Hideki Tojo, 1884--1948	120	(1)
Hirohito, 1901--1989	121	(1)
Benito Mussolini, 1883--1945	122	(3)
Josef Stalin, 1879--1953	125	(1)
Sir Winston Churchill, 1874--1965	126	(2)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882--1945	128	(7)
The Cold War Era	135	(1)
The Korean War	136	(8)
The Vietnam War	144	(29)
The Twenty First Century	173	(7)
End Timeline	180	(8)
Let Freedom Reign	188	(44)
A National Health Program	189	(12)
An Unfair Tax System, Lack of a Living Wage, and a Lack of Schools Teaching Personal Financial Success	201	(16)
The Varick Plan	217	(15)
Intertwined	232	(26)
Energy; Ecology; Immigration; Security	232	(26)
America's Two Wars	258	(48)
The War on Drugs	258	(3)
Three Weeks in a Rehab	261	(20)
The War on Terrorism	281	(25)
The Divided States of America	306	(17)
Organized Religion	323	(27)
The Future	350