An illustrated history of the USA Bryn Callaghan

Résumé

A fascinating history of the USA from the time of the Amerindians to the culturally diverse but united country of today.

Auteur  :
Callaghan, Bryn
Éditeur :
Longman,
Genre :
Documentaire
Langue :
anglais.
Mots-clés :
Nom géographique :
Etats-Unis -- Histoire
Domaine public :
Non
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Table des matières

  • CONTENTS
  • 1 THE FIRST AMERICANS
    • The Sioux Creation
    • Potlatches
  • 2 EXPLORERS FROM EUROPE
    • The Fountain of Youth
    • Why is America called "America"
  • 3 VIRGINIAN BEGINNINGS
    • The captain and the princess
    • Brides for sale
    • The lost colony
  • 4 PURITAN NEW ENGLAND
    • The Mayflower Compact
    • Thanksgiving
    • Minuit buys Manhattan
  • 5 COLONIAL LIFE IN AMERICA
    • Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road
    • Cities and trade
    • Governors and assemblies
  • 6 THERE ROOTS OF REVOLUTION
    • Trade laws and "sleeping dogs"
    • Samuel Adams and the Boston Massacre
  • 7 FIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE
    • Thomas Paine, the voice of revolution
  • 8 FORMING THE NEW NATION
    • George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
    • The first political parties
  • 9 YEARS OFGROWTH
    • Old Hickory
    • Samuel Slater imports the Industrial Revolution
    • The War of 1812
  • 10 WEST TO THE PACIFIC
    • Zebulon Pike and the Great American Desert
    • Wagon trains
  • 11 NORTH AND SOUTH
    • Eli Whitney and the cotton gin
    • William Lloyd Garrison and the abolitionists
    • Harriet Tubman
  • 12 THE CIVIL WAR
    • The Emancipation Proclamation
    • The Gettysburg Address
  • 13 RECONSTRUCTION
    • Plessy v. Ferguson
    • 0 Captain! my Captain!
  • 14 MINERS, RAILROADS AND CATTLEMEN
    • On the trail
  • 15 FARMING THEGREAT PLAINS
    • Joseph Glidden's barbed wire
    • Homesteaders and cattlemen
    • John Muir and the national parks
    • The Ghost Dancers' Song
    • The story of Sitting Bull
  • 17 INVENTORS AND INDUSTRIES
    • Thomas Edison
    • Eli Whitney and the American system
    • Henry Ford and mass production
  • 18 THE GOLDEN DOOR
    • Leaving home
    • Melting pot or salad bowl?
  • 19 REFORMERS AND PROGRESSIVES
    • Theodore Roosevelt and conservation
  • 20 AN AMERICAN EMPIRE
    • Monroe's Doctrine
    • - And Roosevelt's Corollary
    • Dollar Diplomacy
    • "I took Panama"
  • 21 A WAR AND A PEACE
    • Wilson's Fourteen Points
    • The Zimmermann telegram
  • 22 THE ROARINGTWENTIES
    • Sacco and Vanzetti
    • The movies
    • Al Capone and the bootleggers
  • 23 CRASH AND DEPRESSION
    • "You walk"
    • The bonus army
  • 24 ROOSEVELT NEW DEAL
    • Roosevelt and the farmers
    • TVA-Democracy at work
  • -25- THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY
    • Document : The Issei and the Nisei
    • Document : Hiroshima 1945: right or wrong?
  • -26- PROSPERITY AND PROBLEMS
    • Document : The McCarthy witch hunts
    • Document : The Watergate affair
  • -27- BLACK AMERICANS
    • Document : Black Americans at war
    • Document : The dream deferred
    • Document : Black is beautiful
  • -28- SUPERPOWER : COLD WAR AND KOREA
    • Document : The division of Germany
    • Document : Airlift to Berlin
    • Document : The birth of NATO
  • -29- A BALANCE OF TERROR
    • Document : The Space Race
    • Document : The Berlin Wall
    • Document : Crisis over Cuba
  • - 30 THE VIETNAM YEARS
    • Document : Death at Kent State
    • Document : Bob Dylan
  • -31- AMERICA'S BACK YARD
    • Document : Reagan and the Sandinistas
    • Document : American Hispanics
    • Document : Kennedy's Peace Corps
  • - 32 AN END TO COLD WAR?
    • Document : Henry Kissinger
  • 33- THE AMERICAN CENTURY

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