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