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Witness to America : an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today, Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors]

Contributor
Summary
  • Includes over 150 eyewitness accounts of events in American history including works from prominent historical figures and ordinary people
  • Contains primary source material
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
xv, 605 pages
Note
  • "A Lou Reda book."
  • Rev., updated ed. of: The heritage of America / edited by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins. Rev. and enl. ed. 1949
Contents
  • The coming of the Revoution. Mohawks spill tea in Boston Harbor ; John Adams journeys to the Continental Congress ; "Give me liberty or give me death!" ; Colonel Washington scouts the idea of independence ; Adams nominates Washington commander in chief ; A shot is fired that is heard around the world ; Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence -- The winning of independence. Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga ; The American army suffers at Valley Forge ; The world turned upside down at Yorktown ; America, the hope of the world -- Confederation, Constitution, and launching the new government. The thirteen states establish a confederation ; "A rising, not a setting sun" ; Washington is inaugurated president ; Jefferson and Hamilton strike a bargain ; Washington bids farewell to his countrymen ; How Jefferson lived in the White House -- The War of 1812. Tecumseh pledges support to the British ; The British burn Washington city ; Andrew Jackson routs the Redcoats at New Orleans ; "Peace!" -- The hardy frontiersman. "Old America is moving westward" ; "Leave England for America" ; Timothy Flint appraises the frontiersmen ; William Howells remembers neighborliness in Ohio -- Sailing, whaling, and steamboats. The first lowering ; How to cut and boil a whale ; Launching the first steamboat on western waters ; Mark Twain learns to be a pilot -- Social life in the early republic. Harriet Martineau finds a working girls' paradise ; Edward Everett Hale recalls a New England boyhood ; Rebecca Felton describes country life in Georgia ; Joseph Jefferson tries playacting in Springfield, Illinois ; Samuel Morse invents the telegraph ; Dr. Morton discovers anesthesia -- The reformers. "A fertility of projects for the salvation of the world" ; The lunatic fringe of reform ; Dorothea Dix pleads the cause of the insane ; A woman's declaration of independence ; Henry Thoreau builds a cabin at Walden Pond -- The South, slavery, and abolition. A Connecticut Yankee invents the cotton gin ; Luxury among the planters of Louisiana ; The Reverend Mr. Walsh inspects a slave ship ; Social classes among the slaves ; Field hands on the Combahee ; Thomas Dabney runs a model plantation ; Garrison is mobbed by the Boston conservatives ; John Brown makes a speech at Harper's Ferry -- Westward the course of empire. Trading furs on the Northwest coast ; The rendezvous of the mountain men ; John C. Fremont conquers the Sierras in midwinter ; Starvation and death at Donner Lake ; The Pony Express -- The rush for western riches. Sarah Royce braves the desert and the mountains ; Vigilante days and ways in Montana -- Texas and the Mexican War. Davy Crockett defends the Alamo ; Sam Houston whips the Mexicans at San Jacinto ; General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City -- Politics. Andrew Jackson is inaugurated president ; "John Quincy Adams is no more" ; William Herndon remembers Abraham Lincoln ; Abraham Lincoln is nominated in the wigwam -- O captain, my captain. Nathaniel Hawthorne sees President Lincoln ; Lincoln reads the Emancipation Proclamation ; Lincoln frees the slaves ; Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby ; President Lincoln is assassinated -- Behind the lines. Writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" ; The Confederates burn their cotton ; Anna Dickinson sees draft riots in New York City ; Suffering in Andersonville Prison ; The disintegration of the Confederate Army -- The Blue and the Gray. Mrs. Chesnut watches the attack on Fort Sumter ; Abner Doubleday defends Fort Sumter ; "Bull Run" Russell reports the rout of the Federals ; The Monitor and the Merrimac ; Eating mules at Port Hudson ; Blue and Gray fraternize at Port Hudson ; General Lee invades Pennsylvania ; High tide at Gettysburg ; General Sherman marches from Atlanta to the sea ; Eliza Andrews comes home to the "burnt country" ; General Lee surrenders at Appomattox
  • The coming of the Revoution. Mohawks spill tea in Boston Harbor ; John Adams journeys to the Continental Congress ; "Give me liberty or give me death!" ; Colonel Washington scouts the idea of independence ; Adams nominates Washington commander in chief ; A shot is fired that is heard around the world ; Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence -- The winning of independence. Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga ; The American army suffers at Valley Forge ; The world turned upside down at Yorktown ; America, the hope of the world -- Confederation, Constitution, and launching the new government. The thirteen states establish a confederation ; "A rising, not a setting sun" ; Washington is inaugurated president ; Jefferson and Hamilton strike a bargain ; Washington bids farewell to his countrymen ; How Jefferson lived in the White House -- The War of 1812. Tecumseh pledges support to the British ; The British burn Washington city ; Andrew Jackson routs the Redcoats at New Orleans ; "Peace!" -- The hardy frontiersman. "Old America is moving westward" ; "Leave England for America" ; Timothy Flint appraises the frontiersmen ; William Howells remembers neighborliness in Ohio -- Sailing, whaling, and steamboats. The first lowering ; How to cut and boil a whale ; Launching the first steamboat on western waters ; Mark Twain learns to be a pilot -- Social life in the early republic. Harriet Martineau finds a working girls' paradise ; Edward Everett Hale recalls a New England boyhood ; Rebecca Felton describes country life in Georgia ; Joseph Jefferson tries playacting in Springfield, Illinois ; Samuel Morse invents the telegraph ; Dr. Morton discovers anesthesia -- The reformers. "A fertility of projects for the salvation of the world" ; The lunatic fringe of reform ; Dorothea Dix pleads the cause of the insane ; A woman's declaration of independence ; Henry Thoreau builds a cabin at Walden Pond -- The South, slavery, and abolition. A Connecticut Yankee invents the cotton gin ; Luxury among the planters of Louisiana ; The Reverend Mr. Walsh inspects a slave ship ; Social classes among the slaves ; Field hands on the Combahee ; Thomas Dabney runs a model plantation ; Garrison is mobbed by the Boston conservatives ; John Brown makes a speech at Harper's Ferry -- Westward the course of empire. Trading furs on the Northwest coast ; The rendezvous of the mountain men ; John C. Fremont conquers the Sierras in midwinter ; Starvation and death at Donner Lake ; The Pony Express -- The rush for western riches. Sarah Royce braves the desert and the mountains ; Vigilante days and ways in Montana -- Texas and the Mexican War. Davy Crockett defends the Alamo ; Sam Houston whips the Mexicans at San Jacinto ; General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City -- Politics. Andrew Jackson is inaugurated president ; "John Quincy Adams is no more" ; William Herndon remembers Abraham Lincoln ; Abraham Lincoln is nominated in the wigwam -- O captain, my captain. Nathaniel Hawthorne sees President Lincoln ; Lincoln reads the Emancipation Proclamation ; Lincoln frees the slaves ; Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby ; President Lincoln is assassinated -- Behind the lines. Writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" ; The Confederates burn their cotton ; Anna Dickinson sees draft riots in New York City ; Suffering in Andersonville Prison ; The disintegration of the Confederate Army -- The Blue and the Gray. Mrs. Chesnut watches the attack on Fort Sumter ; Abner Doubleday defends Fort Sumter ; "Bull Run" Russell reports the rout of the Federals ; The Monitor and the Merrimac ; Eating mules at Port Hudson ; Blue and Gray fraternize at Port Hudson ; General Lee invades Pennsylvania ; High tide at Gettysburg ; General Sherman marches from Atlanta to the sea ; Eliza Andrews comes home to the "burnt country" ; General Lee surrenders at Appomattox
  • Audio CD: 1. Introduction -- 2. Mowhawks spill tea in Boston Harbor -- 3. Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence -- 4. The American army suffers at Valley Forge -- 5. Tecumseh pledges support to the British -- 6. "Old America is moving westward" -- 7. Settlers recall growing up in the early Republic -- 8. Mark Twain on the Pony Express -- 9. Three accounts of pioneer life -- 10. The Reverend Walsh inspects a slave ship -- 11. Abraham Lincoln : O captain, my captain -- 12. Writing "The battle hymn of the Republic" -- 13. The Civil War ends with a surrender -- 14. Robert Louis Stevenson travels across the Plains -- 15. Henry Ford constructs a gasoline buggy -- 16. Jacob Riis discovers how the other half lives -- 17. Theodore Roosevelt takes charge of the Navy -- 18. The World Wars -- 19. The Marines cross a river under fire on Guadalcanal -- 20. An American plane ushers in the Atomic Age -- 21. The GIs and modern America -- 22. Edward R. Murrow on the meaning of television -- 23. John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address -- 24. Rosa Parks gets arrested in Montgomery -- 25. The Democratic convention, August 1968 -- 26. Neil Armstrong reminisces about his moon walk -- 27. The harrowing evacuation of Saigon -- 28. Bill Gates on the birth of the personal computer -- 29. Michael Kinsley on the impeachment of Bill Clinton -- 30. Toward the new millennium -- 31. Conclusion
Isbn
9780965014311
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Witness to America : an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today
Title
Witness to America
Title remainder
an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today
Statement of responsibility
Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors]
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • Includes over 150 eyewitness accounts of events in American history including works from prominent historical figures and ordinary people
  • Contains primary source material
Member of
Cataloging source
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Heritage of America
Dewey number
973
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E173
LC item number
.W78 1999
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non fiction
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  • Ambrose, Stephen E
  • Brinkley, Douglas
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Witness to America : an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today, Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors]
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Publication
Note
  • "A Lou Reda book."
  • Rev., updated ed. of: The heritage of America / edited by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins. Rev. and enl. ed. 1949
Accompanying material
1 audio disc (73 min., 56 sec. : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.)
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-597) and index
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unknown
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Contents
  • The coming of the Revoution. Mohawks spill tea in Boston Harbor ; John Adams journeys to the Continental Congress ; "Give me liberty or give me death!" ; Colonel Washington scouts the idea of independence ; Adams nominates Washington commander in chief ; A shot is fired that is heard around the world ; Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence -- The winning of independence. Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga ; The American army suffers at Valley Forge ; The world turned upside down at Yorktown ; America, the hope of the world -- Confederation, Constitution, and launching the new government. The thirteen states establish a confederation ; "A rising, not a setting sun" ; Washington is inaugurated president ; Jefferson and Hamilton strike a bargain ; Washington bids farewell to his countrymen ; How Jefferson lived in the White House -- The War of 1812. Tecumseh pledges support to the British ; The British burn Washington city ; Andrew Jackson routs the Redcoats at New Orleans ; "Peace!" -- The hardy frontiersman. "Old America is moving westward" ; "Leave England for America" ; Timothy Flint appraises the frontiersmen ; William Howells remembers neighborliness in Ohio -- Sailing, whaling, and steamboats. The first lowering ; How to cut and boil a whale ; Launching the first steamboat on western waters ; Mark Twain learns to be a pilot -- Social life in the early republic. Harriet Martineau finds a working girls' paradise ; Edward Everett Hale recalls a New England boyhood ; Rebecca Felton describes country life in Georgia ; Joseph Jefferson tries playacting in Springfield, Illinois ; Samuel Morse invents the telegraph ; Dr. Morton discovers anesthesia -- The reformers. "A fertility of projects for the salvation of the world" ; The lunatic fringe of reform ; Dorothea Dix pleads the cause of the insane ; A woman's declaration of independence ; Henry Thoreau builds a cabin at Walden Pond -- The South, slavery, and abolition. A Connecticut Yankee invents the cotton gin ; Luxury among the planters of Louisiana ; The Reverend Mr. Walsh inspects a slave ship ; Social classes among the slaves ; Field hands on the Combahee ; Thomas Dabney runs a model plantation ; Garrison is mobbed by the Boston conservatives ; John Brown makes a speech at Harper's Ferry -- Westward the course of empire. Trading furs on the Northwest coast ; The rendezvous of the mountain men ; John C. Fremont conquers the Sierras in midwinter ; Starvation and death at Donner Lake ; The Pony Express -- The rush for western riches. Sarah Royce braves the desert and the mountains ; Vigilante days and ways in Montana -- Texas and the Mexican War. Davy Crockett defends the Alamo ; Sam Houston whips the Mexicans at San Jacinto ; General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City -- Politics. Andrew Jackson is inaugurated president ; "John Quincy Adams is no more" ; William Herndon remembers Abraham Lincoln ; Abraham Lincoln is nominated in the wigwam -- O captain, my captain. Nathaniel Hawthorne sees President Lincoln ; Lincoln reads the Emancipation Proclamation ; Lincoln frees the slaves ; Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby ; President Lincoln is assassinated -- Behind the lines. Writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" ; The Confederates burn their cotton ; Anna Dickinson sees draft riots in New York City ; Suffering in Andersonville Prison ; The disintegration of the Confederate Army -- The Blue and the Gray. Mrs. Chesnut watches the attack on Fort Sumter ; Abner Doubleday defends Fort Sumter ; "Bull Run" Russell reports the rout of the Federals ; The Monitor and the Merrimac ; Eating mules at Port Hudson ; Blue and Gray fraternize at Port Hudson ; General Lee invades Pennsylvania ; High tide at Gettysburg ; General Sherman marches from Atlanta to the sea ; Eliza Andrews comes home to the "burnt country" ; General Lee surrenders at Appomattox
  • The coming of the Revoution. Mohawks spill tea in Boston Harbor ; John Adams journeys to the Continental Congress ; "Give me liberty or give me death!" ; Colonel Washington scouts the idea of independence ; Adams nominates Washington commander in chief ; A shot is fired that is heard around the world ; Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence -- The winning of independence. Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga ; The American army suffers at Valley Forge ; The world turned upside down at Yorktown ; America, the hope of the world -- Confederation, Constitution, and launching the new government. The thirteen states establish a confederation ; "A rising, not a setting sun" ; Washington is inaugurated president ; Jefferson and Hamilton strike a bargain ; Washington bids farewell to his countrymen ; How Jefferson lived in the White House -- The War of 1812. Tecumseh pledges support to the British ; The British burn Washington city ; Andrew Jackson routs the Redcoats at New Orleans ; "Peace!" -- The hardy frontiersman. "Old America is moving westward" ; "Leave England for America" ; Timothy Flint appraises the frontiersmen ; William Howells remembers neighborliness in Ohio -- Sailing, whaling, and steamboats. The first lowering ; How to cut and boil a whale ; Launching the first steamboat on western waters ; Mark Twain learns to be a pilot -- Social life in the early republic. Harriet Martineau finds a working girls' paradise ; Edward Everett Hale recalls a New England boyhood ; Rebecca Felton describes country life in Georgia ; Joseph Jefferson tries playacting in Springfield, Illinois ; Samuel Morse invents the telegraph ; Dr. Morton discovers anesthesia -- The reformers. "A fertility of projects for the salvation of the world" ; The lunatic fringe of reform ; Dorothea Dix pleads the cause of the insane ; A woman's declaration of independence ; Henry Thoreau builds a cabin at Walden Pond -- The South, slavery, and abolition. A Connecticut Yankee invents the cotton gin ; Luxury among the planters of Louisiana ; The Reverend Mr. Walsh inspects a slave ship ; Social classes among the slaves ; Field hands on the Combahee ; Thomas Dabney runs a model plantation ; Garrison is mobbed by the Boston conservatives ; John Brown makes a speech at Harper's Ferry -- Westward the course of empire. Trading furs on the Northwest coast ; The rendezvous of the mountain men ; John C. Fremont conquers the Sierras in midwinter ; Starvation and death at Donner Lake ; The Pony Express -- The rush for western riches. Sarah Royce braves the desert and the mountains ; Vigilante days and ways in Montana -- Texas and the Mexican War. Davy Crockett defends the Alamo ; Sam Houston whips the Mexicans at San Jacinto ; General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City -- Politics. Andrew Jackson is inaugurated president ; "John Quincy Adams is no more" ; William Herndon remembers Abraham Lincoln ; Abraham Lincoln is nominated in the wigwam -- O captain, my captain. Nathaniel Hawthorne sees President Lincoln ; Lincoln reads the Emancipation Proclamation ; Lincoln frees the slaves ; Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby ; President Lincoln is assassinated -- Behind the lines. Writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" ; The Confederates burn their cotton ; Anna Dickinson sees draft riots in New York City ; Suffering in Andersonville Prison ; The disintegration of the Confederate Army -- The Blue and the Gray. Mrs. Chesnut watches the attack on Fort Sumter ; Abner Doubleday defends Fort Sumter ; "Bull Run" Russell reports the rout of the Federals ; The Monitor and the Merrimac ; Eating mules at Port Hudson ; Blue and Gray fraternize at Port Hudson ; General Lee invades Pennsylvania ; High tide at Gettysburg ; General Sherman marches from Atlanta to the sea ; Eliza Andrews comes home to the "burnt country" ; General Lee surrenders at Appomattox
  • Audio CD: 1. Introduction -- 2. Mowhawks spill tea in Boston Harbor -- 3. Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence -- 4. The American army suffers at Valley Forge -- 5. Tecumseh pledges support to the British -- 6. "Old America is moving westward" -- 7. Settlers recall growing up in the early Republic -- 8. Mark Twain on the Pony Express -- 9. Three accounts of pioneer life -- 10. The Reverend Walsh inspects a slave ship -- 11. Abraham Lincoln : O captain, my captain -- 12. Writing "The battle hymn of the Republic" -- 13. The Civil War ends with a surrender -- 14. Robert Louis Stevenson travels across the Plains -- 15. Henry Ford constructs a gasoline buggy -- 16. Jacob Riis discovers how the other half lives -- 17. Theodore Roosevelt takes charge of the Navy -- 18. The World Wars -- 19. The Marines cross a river under fire on Guadalcanal -- 20. An American plane ushers in the Atomic Age -- 21. The GIs and modern America -- 22. Edward R. Murrow on the meaning of television -- 23. John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address -- 24. Rosa Parks gets arrested in Montgomery -- 25. The Democratic convention, August 1968 -- 26. Neil Armstrong reminisces about his moon walk -- 27. The harrowing evacuation of Saigon -- 28. Bill Gates on the birth of the personal computer -- 29. Michael Kinsley on the impeachment of Bill Clinton -- 30. Toward the new millennium -- 31. Conclusion
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Dimensions
29 cm +
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
xv, 605 pages
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not applicable
Isbn
9780965014311
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Label
Witness to America : an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today, Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors]
Link
Publication
Note
  • "A Lou Reda book."
  • Rev., updated ed. of: The heritage of America / edited by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins. Rev. and enl. ed. 1949
Accompanying material
1 audio disc (73 min., 56 sec. : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.)
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-597) and index
Capture and storage technique
unknown
Carrier category
  • volume
  • audio disc
Carrier category code
  • nc
  • sd
Carrier MARC source
  • rdacarrier
  • rdacarrier
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
  • text
  • spoken word
Content type code
  • txt
  • spw
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
  • The coming of the Revoution. Mohawks spill tea in Boston Harbor ; John Adams journeys to the Continental Congress ; "Give me liberty or give me death!" ; Colonel Washington scouts the idea of independence ; Adams nominates Washington commander in chief ; A shot is fired that is heard around the world ; Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence -- The winning of independence. Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga ; The American army suffers at Valley Forge ; The world turned upside down at Yorktown ; America, the hope of the world -- Confederation, Constitution, and launching the new government. The thirteen states establish a confederation ; "A rising, not a setting sun" ; Washington is inaugurated president ; Jefferson and Hamilton strike a bargain ; Washington bids farewell to his countrymen ; How Jefferson lived in the White House -- The War of 1812. Tecumseh pledges support to the British ; The British burn Washington city ; Andrew Jackson routs the Redcoats at New Orleans ; "Peace!" -- The hardy frontiersman. "Old America is moving westward" ; "Leave England for America" ; Timothy Flint appraises the frontiersmen ; William Howells remembers neighborliness in Ohio -- Sailing, whaling, and steamboats. The first lowering ; How to cut and boil a whale ; Launching the first steamboat on western waters ; Mark Twain learns to be a pilot -- Social life in the early republic. Harriet Martineau finds a working girls' paradise ; Edward Everett Hale recalls a New England boyhood ; Rebecca Felton describes country life in Georgia ; Joseph Jefferson tries playacting in Springfield, Illinois ; Samuel Morse invents the telegraph ; Dr. Morton discovers anesthesia -- The reformers. "A fertility of projects for the salvation of the world" ; The lunatic fringe of reform ; Dorothea Dix pleads the cause of the insane ; A woman's declaration of independence ; Henry Thoreau builds a cabin at Walden Pond -- The South, slavery, and abolition. A Connecticut Yankee invents the cotton gin ; Luxury among the planters of Louisiana ; The Reverend Mr. Walsh inspects a slave ship ; Social classes among the slaves ; Field hands on the Combahee ; Thomas Dabney runs a model plantation ; Garrison is mobbed by the Boston conservatives ; John Brown makes a speech at Harper's Ferry -- Westward the course of empire. Trading furs on the Northwest coast ; The rendezvous of the mountain men ; John C. Fremont conquers the Sierras in midwinter ; Starvation and death at Donner Lake ; The Pony Express -- The rush for western riches. Sarah Royce braves the desert and the mountains ; Vigilante days and ways in Montana -- Texas and the Mexican War. Davy Crockett defends the Alamo ; Sam Houston whips the Mexicans at San Jacinto ; General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City -- Politics. Andrew Jackson is inaugurated president ; "John Quincy Adams is no more" ; William Herndon remembers Abraham Lincoln ; Abraham Lincoln is nominated in the wigwam -- O captain, my captain. Nathaniel Hawthorne sees President Lincoln ; Lincoln reads the Emancipation Proclamation ; Lincoln frees the slaves ; Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby ; President Lincoln is assassinated -- Behind the lines. Writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" ; The Confederates burn their cotton ; Anna Dickinson sees draft riots in New York City ; Suffering in Andersonville Prison ; The disintegration of the Confederate Army -- The Blue and the Gray. Mrs. Chesnut watches the attack on Fort Sumter ; Abner Doubleday defends Fort Sumter ; "Bull Run" Russell reports the rout of the Federals ; The Monitor and the Merrimac ; Eating mules at Port Hudson ; Blue and Gray fraternize at Port Hudson ; General Lee invades Pennsylvania ; High tide at Gettysburg ; General Sherman marches from Atlanta to the sea ; Eliza Andrews comes home to the "burnt country" ; General Lee surrenders at Appomattox
  • The coming of the Revoution. Mohawks spill tea in Boston Harbor ; John Adams journeys to the Continental Congress ; "Give me liberty or give me death!" ; Colonel Washington scouts the idea of independence ; Adams nominates Washington commander in chief ; A shot is fired that is heard around the world ; Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence -- The winning of independence. Ethan Allen captures Fort Ticonderoga ; The American army suffers at Valley Forge ; The world turned upside down at Yorktown ; America, the hope of the world -- Confederation, Constitution, and launching the new government. The thirteen states establish a confederation ; "A rising, not a setting sun" ; Washington is inaugurated president ; Jefferson and Hamilton strike a bargain ; Washington bids farewell to his countrymen ; How Jefferson lived in the White House -- The War of 1812. Tecumseh pledges support to the British ; The British burn Washington city ; Andrew Jackson routs the Redcoats at New Orleans ; "Peace!" -- The hardy frontiersman. "Old America is moving westward" ; "Leave England for America" ; Timothy Flint appraises the frontiersmen ; William Howells remembers neighborliness in Ohio -- Sailing, whaling, and steamboats. The first lowering ; How to cut and boil a whale ; Launching the first steamboat on western waters ; Mark Twain learns to be a pilot -- Social life in the early republic. Harriet Martineau finds a working girls' paradise ; Edward Everett Hale recalls a New England boyhood ; Rebecca Felton describes country life in Georgia ; Joseph Jefferson tries playacting in Springfield, Illinois ; Samuel Morse invents the telegraph ; Dr. Morton discovers anesthesia -- The reformers. "A fertility of projects for the salvation of the world" ; The lunatic fringe of reform ; Dorothea Dix pleads the cause of the insane ; A woman's declaration of independence ; Henry Thoreau builds a cabin at Walden Pond -- The South, slavery, and abolition. A Connecticut Yankee invents the cotton gin ; Luxury among the planters of Louisiana ; The Reverend Mr. Walsh inspects a slave ship ; Social classes among the slaves ; Field hands on the Combahee ; Thomas Dabney runs a model plantation ; Garrison is mobbed by the Boston conservatives ; John Brown makes a speech at Harper's Ferry -- Westward the course of empire. Trading furs on the Northwest coast ; The rendezvous of the mountain men ; John C. Fremont conquers the Sierras in midwinter ; Starvation and death at Donner Lake ; The Pony Express -- The rush for western riches. Sarah Royce braves the desert and the mountains ; Vigilante days and ways in Montana -- Texas and the Mexican War. Davy Crockett defends the Alamo ; Sam Houston whips the Mexicans at San Jacinto ; General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City -- Politics. Andrew Jackson is inaugurated president ; "John Quincy Adams is no more" ; William Herndon remembers Abraham Lincoln ; Abraham Lincoln is nominated in the wigwam -- O captain, my captain. Nathaniel Hawthorne sees President Lincoln ; Lincoln reads the Emancipation Proclamation ; Lincoln frees the slaves ; Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby ; President Lincoln is assassinated -- Behind the lines. Writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" ; The Confederates burn their cotton ; Anna Dickinson sees draft riots in New York City ; Suffering in Andersonville Prison ; The disintegration of the Confederate Army -- The Blue and the Gray. Mrs. Chesnut watches the attack on Fort Sumter ; Abner Doubleday defends Fort Sumter ; "Bull Run" Russell reports the rout of the Federals ; The Monitor and the Merrimac ; Eating mules at Port Hudson ; Blue and Gray fraternize at Port Hudson ; General Lee invades Pennsylvania ; High tide at Gettysburg ; General Sherman marches from Atlanta to the sea ; Eliza Andrews comes home to the "burnt country" ; General Lee surrenders at Appomattox
  • Audio CD: 1. Introduction -- 2. Mowhawks spill tea in Boston Harbor -- 3. Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence -- 4. The American army suffers at Valley Forge -- 5. Tecumseh pledges support to the British -- 6. "Old America is moving westward" -- 7. Settlers recall growing up in the early Republic -- 8. Mark Twain on the Pony Express -- 9. Three accounts of pioneer life -- 10. The Reverend Walsh inspects a slave ship -- 11. Abraham Lincoln : O captain, my captain -- 12. Writing "The battle hymn of the Republic" -- 13. The Civil War ends with a surrender -- 14. Robert Louis Stevenson travels across the Plains -- 15. Henry Ford constructs a gasoline buggy -- 16. Jacob Riis discovers how the other half lives -- 17. Theodore Roosevelt takes charge of the Navy -- 18. The World Wars -- 19. The Marines cross a river under fire on Guadalcanal -- 20. An American plane ushers in the Atomic Age -- 21. The GIs and modern America -- 22. Edward R. Murrow on the meaning of television -- 23. John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address -- 24. Rosa Parks gets arrested in Montgomery -- 25. The Democratic convention, August 1968 -- 26. Neil Armstrong reminisces about his moon walk -- 27. The harrowing evacuation of Saigon -- 28. Bill Gates on the birth of the personal computer -- 29. Michael Kinsley on the impeachment of Bill Clinton -- 30. Toward the new millennium -- 31. Conclusion
Control code
ocm41400736
Dimensions
29 cm +
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Edition
1st ed.
Extent
xv, 605 pages
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9780965014311
Kind of cutting
not applicable
Kind of disc cylinder or tape
mass produced
Kind of material
plastic with metal
Lccn
99023797
Media category
  • unmediated
  • audio
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia
  • rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
  • s
Other physical details
illustrations
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
sound disc
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
System control number
(OCoLC)41400736
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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