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Axelrod Alan

Книга "Complete Idiot’s Guide to American History"

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  1. Complete Idiot’s Guide to American History by Alan Axelrod
    1. Who’s on First? (50,000 B.C.-A.D. 1500S)
      1. A Stroll Across the Bering Sea
      2. 45,000 Years of American History (Abridged Version)
      3. The Anasazi
      4. The Mound Builders
      5. South of the Border
      6. The Maya
      7. The Incas
      8. Beyond the Aztec Frontier
      9. Pueblo Culture: The First American Frontier
      10. Atlantic Presence
      11. Leif the Lucky
      12. The Least You Heed to Know
      13. Stats
      14. Word for the Day
      15. Stats
      16. Real Life
    2. Columbus Days (1451-1507)
      1. It’s a Round World After All
      2. Son of a Weaver
      3. Trouble on the Horizon
      4. 10/12/92—That’s Fourteen 92
      5. First Blood
      6. Carving Up a New World
      7. Three More Voyages
      8. Why We’re Not Called Columbia
      9. The Least You Need to Know
      10. Stats
      11. Voice from the Past
    3. New Spain, Same Old Spaniards (1400-1600s)
      1. The Way of the Conquistador
      2. Plumed Serpent
      3. Borderlands
      4. Onate the Terrible
      5. Birth of the “Black Legend”
      6. The First American Revolutions
      7. From Black Legend to Black Robes
      8. The Least You Need to Know
      9. Word for the Day
      10. Word for the Day
    4. England’s Errands (1497-1608)
      1. O, Brave New World
      2. Henry VII Backs an Italian Sailor
      3. Passage to India? No Way
      4. A Colony Vanishes, a Colony Appears
      5. Roanoke Lost
      6. Jamestown Hangs by a Thread
      7. John Smith and Pocahontas
      8. The Least You Need to Know
      9. Stats
      10. Main Event
      11. Real Life
      12. Word for the Day
      13. Voice from the Past
    5. A Rock and a Hard Place (1608-1733)
      1. The New Israel
      2. Plymouth Rock
      3. Massachusetts Bay
      4. City on a Hill
      5. Rhode Island: Haven for the Heterodox
      6. Maryland: Catholics Welcome
      7. Pennsylvania: Quaker Colony
      8. Georgia: Utopia and Prison
      9. The Slaves of Virginia
      10. The Least You Need to Know
      11. Main Event
      12. Main Event
      13. Word for the Day
    6. They Could’ve Been Contenders (1608-1680s)
      1. Enter Champlain
      2. The Sun King Casts His Rays
      3. The Dutch Invest $24 in Manhattan Real Estate
      4. A Tale of Two Governors
      5. Sweden In the Delaware Valley
      6. New Netherland Becomes New York
      7. The Least You Need to Know
      8. Word for the Day
      9. Word for the Day
      10. Word for the Day
      11. Word for the Day
    7. Fires in the Wilderness (1636-1748)
      1. New England Bleeds
      2. The Pequot War
      3. King Philip’s War
      4. The French and Indian Wars
      5. King William’s War
      6. Queen Anne’s War
      7. Tuscarora and Yemasee Wars
      8. King George’s War
      9. The Least You Need to Know
      10. Word for the Day
      11. Word for the Day
      12. Stats
      13. Word for the Day
      14. Stats
    8. Global War—American Style (1749-1763)
      1. The French and Indian War
      2. First Blood for the Father of Our Country
      3. “Who Would Have Thought It?”
      4. Panic, Retreat, Retrenchment
      5. Seven Years of Bad Luck
      6. Paths of Glory
      7. Pontiac’s Rebellion
      8. The Least You Need to Know
      9. Word for the Day
      10. Main Event
      11. Main Event
    9. Invitation to a Tea Party (1763-1775)
      1. King George Draws a Line
      2. Taxation Without Representation
      3. Stamps of Tyranny
      4. Act II
      5. Massacre in Boston
      6. From Tea Party to Continental Congress
      7. Intolerable Acts
      8. Continental Congress
      9. The Shot Heard ’Round the World
      10. Washington Backs a Long Shot
      11. A Thousand Fall Near Bunker Hill
      12. An Olive Branch Breaks and a Declaration Is Written
      13. Common Sense and Confederation
      14. The Least You Need to Know
      15. Real Life
      16. Main Event
      17. Stats
      18. Voice from the Past
      19. Stats
      20. Voice from the Past
    10. The Fires of Liberty (1776-1783)
      1. The Longest Odds
      2. Siege of Boston
      3. Down South
      4. A Pale Flush of Victory
      5. The British Lion Roars
      6. Recrossing the Delaware
      7. Saratoga Morning
      8. Trouble in the City of Brotherly Love
      9. Viva La France!
      10. A Hard Forge
      11. White War, Red Blood
      12. On Southern Fronts
      13. Triumph at Yorktown
      14. The Least You Need to Know
      15. Word for the Day
      16. Word for the Day
      17. Real Life
    11. From Many, One (1787-1797)
      1. Rope of Sand
      2. Northwest Ordinance
      3. We the People…
      4. Constitutional Convention
      5. The Virginia Plan
      6. The New Jersey Plan
      7. Connecticut Compromise
      8. Three-Fifths of a Person
      9. Federalist Papers
      10. Father of His Country
      11. Glorious Afterthought: The Bill of Rights
      12. Secretary Hamilton
      13. The Least You Need to Know
      14. Word for the Day
      15. Main Event
      16. Word for the Day
      17. Word for the Day
      18. Stats
      19. Real Life
      20. Main Event
    12. 1812 Overture (1798-1812)
      1. Foreign Affairs
      2. As Easy as XYZ
      3. Overreaction
      4. The Age of Jefferson
      5. Supreme Court Reigns Supreme
      6. A Purchase and a Journey
      7. Pirates and Embargo
      8. Tecumseh Rises
      9. The Least You Need to Know
      10. Word for the Day
      11. Word for the Day
      12. Real Life
      13. Stats
      14. Main Event
    13. Washington Burns, a Nation Is Reborn (1812-1814)
      1. War Hawks Triumphant
      2. Three-Pronged Flop
      3. The Fall of Detroit
      4. Defeat on the Niagara Frontier
      5. A No-show in Canada
      6. The West in Flames
      7. British Blockade
      8. We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Ours
      9. O Say Can You See
      10. Salvation on Lake Champlain
      11. Hero of New Orleans
      12. The Least You Need to Know
      13. Stats
      14. Main Event
      15. Main Event
      16. Word for the Day
      17. Stats
    14. Fanfare for the Common Man (1814-1836)
      1. Good Feelings
      2. Erie Canal
      3. Among then Family of Nations
      4. Monroe Doctrine
      5. Bad Feelings
      6. American System
      7. Panic of 1819
      8. Compromise
      9. Age of Jackson
      10. Common Man or King Andrew?
      11. The Monster
      12. The Least You Need to Know
      13. Word for the Day
      14. Word for the Day
      15. Voice from the Past
      16. Word for the Day
    15. Trails of Tears (1817-1842)
      1. Liberty and Union, Now and Forever
      2. War with the Seminoles
      3. The Rise and Fall of Black Hawk
      4. The Indian Removal Act
      5. A Hollow Victory in the Supreme Court
      6. A Man Called Osceola
      7. “The Cruelest Work I Ever Knew”
      8. Indian Territory
      9. The Least You Need to Know
      10. Word for the Day
      11. Voice from the Past
    16. Chains, Whips, and Heartbreak (1724-1857)
      1. Against the American Grain
      2. Cotton Gin
      3. Underground Railroad
      4. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
      5. The Liberator and the Narrative
      6. The Tortured Course of Compromise
      7. 1850
      8. Kansas-Nebraska Act
      9. The Dred Scott Disgrace
      10. The Least You Need to Know
      11. Word for the Day
      12. Real Life
      13. Main Event
    17. Looking West (1834-1846)
      1. The Plow and the Reaper
      2. Cyrus McCormick
      3. John Deere
      4. Martyrdom at the Alamo
      5. Trails West
      6. Overland Trail
      7. Oregon Fever
      8. “What Hath God Wrought?”
      9. The Least You Need to Know
      10. Word for the Day
      11. Stats
      12. Word for the Day
    18. Destiny (1846-1860)
      1. “Mr. Polk’s War”
      2. God and Gold
      3. A Trek
      4. All That Glitters
      5. The Least You Need to Know
      6. Main Event
      7. Word for the Day
    19. Strange Flag over Sumter (1859-1862)
      1. John Brown’s Body
      2. Bleak Transition
      3. April 12, 1861, 4:30 A.M.
      4. From Bull Run to Antietam
      5. Seven Days
      6. Back to Bull Run
      7. Perryville and Antietam
      8. Emancipation Proclaimed—More or Less
      9. The Least You Need to Know
      10. Stats
      11. Stats
      12. Real Life
      13. Real Life
      14. Stats
    20. Bloody Road to Appomattox and beyond (1863-1876)
      1. Four Score and Seven
      2. Vicksburg and Chattanooga
      3. Back to Richmond
      4. The March to the Sea
      5. The Country Courthouse
      6. With Malice Toward Some
      7. An Evening at Ford’s Theatre
      8. Reconstruction Abuses
      9. Articles of Impeachment
      10. His Fraudulency
      11. The Least You Need to Know
      12. Stats
      13. Voice from the Past
      14. Word for the Day
      15. Voice from the Past
    21. Sea to Shining Sea (1862-1878)
      1. Homesteaders
      2. The Sod Frontier
      3. Ruts and Rails
      4. Iron Road
      5. Golden Spike at Promontory
      6. The Least You Need to Know
      7. Stats
      8. Word for the Day
      9. Stats
      10. Main Event
      11. Word for the Day
    22. “The Only Good Indian…” (1862-1891)
      1. Blue, Gray—and Red
      2. A Man Called Cochise
      3. Southwestern Terror
      4. The Great Santee Sioux Massacre
      5. War for the Bozeman Rail
      6. The Campaigns of Hancock and Sheridan
      7. War for the Black Hills
      8. Defeat of Custer
      9. “I Will Fight No More Forever”
      10. The Geronimo Campaign
      11. Wounded Knee
      12. The Least You Need to Know
      13. Real Life
      14. Voice from the Past
      15. Real Life
      16. Voice from the Past
    23. From Panic to Empire (1869-1908)
      1. Empire of Cows
      2. American Cowboy
      3. Law and Disorder
      4. Jesse, Billy, and the Rest
      5. Cornering the Market
      6. Gould and Gold
      7. Rockefeller and Oil
      8. The Gospel of Wealth
      9. An Age of Invention
      10. “Mr. Watson, Come Here…”
      11. Let There Be Light
      12. Recorded Sound, Recorded Light
      13. Bridge and Skyscraper, Kitty Hawk and Detroit
      14. The Least You Need to Know
      15. Word for the Day
      16. Stats
      17. Main Event
      18. Stats
    24. Octopus and Jungle (1877-1906)
      1. The Golden Door
      2. How the Other Half Lived
      3. Land Rush
      4. Knights of Labor
      5. The Great Strikes
      6. AFL
      7. I Won’t Work
      8. Tweed of Tammany
      9. Urban Reform
      10. Chicago Meat
      11. Muckrakers and Progressivism
      12. Government Takes a Hand
      13. The Least You Need to Know
      14. Voice from the Past
      15. Stats
      16. Main Event
      17. Word for the Day
      18. Word for the Day
      19. Real Life
      20. Word for the Day
    25. Over There (1898-1918)
      1. Color It Yellow
      2. “I’ll Furnish the War…”
      3. Remember the Maine!
      4. He Kept Us Out of War
      5. Lusitania Lost
      6. Zimmermann Note
      7. … Sate for Democracy
      8. Patriots and Slackers
      9. Over the Top
      10. Marne
      11. St. Mihiel
      12. Armistice
      13. The Least You Need to Know
      14. Word for the Day
      15. Word for the Day
      16. Main Event
      17. Word for the Day
      18. Voice from the Past
      19. Word for the Day
      20. Stats
    26. Jazzed, Boozed, and Busted Flat (1918-1929)
      1. A League of Nations
      2. Red Scare
      3. End of the Dream
      4. A Generation Lost and Found
      5. Stein, Fitzgerald, Hemingway & Co.
      6. Women Get the Vote
      7. A Renaissance in Harlem
      8. America Dries Up
      9. Gangster Culture
      10. Countdown to Black Tuesday
      11. Joy Ride
      12. Crash
      13. The Least You Need to Know
      14. Voice from the Past
      15. Stats
    27. A New Deal and a New War (1930-1941)
      1. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
      2. The Verge of Revolution
      3. The Epoch of FDR
      4. Government Redefined
      5. Urban War
      6. A New War
      7. Europe Darkens, Then Dies
      8. Infamy at Pearl
      9. The Least You Need to Know
      10. Word for the Day
      11. Stats
      12. Main Event
    28. The “Good War” (1941-1945)
      1. I Shall Return
      2. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
      3. Home Front
      4. Afrika Korps
      5. Coral Sea and Midway
      6. Island Hopping
      7. Mediterranean Shores
      8. The Beaches of France
      9. To Berlin and Victory in Europe
      10. Toward V-E Day
      11. Fat Man and Little Boy
      12. The Least You Need to Know
      13. Main Event
      14. Voice from the Past
      15. Stats
      16. Stats
      17. Real Life
      18. Main Event
      19. Stats
      20. Main Event
      21. Stats
    29. A Cold War and a Korean War (1944-1954)
      1. Winning the Peace
      2. The Birth of the United Nations
      3. Germany Divided
      4. Secretary Marshall’s Plan
      5. Curtain of Iron
      6. “Containing” Communism
      7. Airlift to Berlin
      8. Would the West back down? Would this be the start of World War III?
      9. Witch Hunts
      10. Police Action in Korea
      11. Invasion, Counterstrike, Invasion
      12. Meatgrinder
      13. Old Soldiers…
      14. Thrust, Counterthrust, and Stalemate
      15. Peace Table
      16. The Unhappiest Ally
      17. The Least You Heed to Know
      18. Main Event
      19. Word for the Day
      20. Voice from the Past
      21. Main Event
      22. Word for the Day
      23. Word for the Day
      24. Stats
    30. From the Back of the Bus to the Great Society (1947-1968)
      1. Executive Order 9981
      2. The Dream Deferred
      3. Rosa Parks Boards a Bus
      4. Emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr.
      5. Or Does It Explode?
      6. Emergence of Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement
      7. Sputnik and the New Frontier
      8. JFK
      9. “The Torch Has Been Passed…”
      10. Bay of Pigs and Brink of Armageddon
      11. An Autumn Day In Dallas
      12. LBJ
      13. War on Poverty
      14. Civil Rights Act of 1964
      15. The Least You Need to Know
      16. Main Event
      17. Voice from the Past
      18. Voice from the Past
      19. Word for the Day
    31. Vietnam (1946-1975)
      1. Flashback
      2. The March to Dien Bien Phu
      3. Domino Theory
      4. American “Advisors”
      5. Flaming, Monks and the Fall of Diem
      6. Rolling Thunder
      7. Escalation and Vietnamization
      8. Hearts and Minds
      9. Hell, No! We Won’t Go!
      10. The Light at the End of the Tunnel
      11. Tet Offensive
      12. Resignation of Johnson
      13. Nixon’s War
      14. Paris, Cambodia, and Laos
      15. Death for Easter
      16. Bombs for Christmas
      17. Paris Accords and the Fall of Saigon
      18. The Least You Need to Know
      19. Stats
      20. Main Event
      21. Word for the day
      22. Main Event
      23. Word for the Day
    32. Of Love, the Moon, and Dirty Tricks (1968-1974)
      1. Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out
      2. Summer of Love
      3. The Eagle Has Landed
      4. Pentagon Papers
      5. SALT, China, and the Middle East
      6. CREEP
      7. Plumbers
      8. All the President’s Men
      9. The Least You Need to Know
      10. Main Event
      11. Word for the Day
      12. Real Life
    33. Women, Crisis, and a Call to the Great Communicator (1963-1980)
      1. A Woman’s Place
      2. From Rosie the Riveter to The Feminine Mystique
      3. The Power of the Pill
      4. NOW and Ms.
      5. ERA Sunset
      6. A Meeting of the Sheiks
      7. Made In Japan
      8. Frightening Cities, Crumbling Bridges
      9. Meltdown
      10. The Ayatollah
      11. The Great Communicator
      12. The Least You Need to Know
      13. Word for the Day
      14. Main Event
      15. Stats
      16. Stats
      17. Main Event
      18. Word for the Day
    34. A New Economy, a Plague, a Fallenwall, and a Desert in Flames (1980-1991)
      1. Supply Side and Trickle Down
      2. Greed Is Good
      3. Black Monday
      4. “Gay Plaque” and a Blind Eye
      5. “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
      6. Star Wars Arm Wrestle
      7. The Wall Falls
      8. Ollie, Iran, and the Contras
      9. Desert Shield and Desert Storm
      10. New World Order
      11. The Least You Need to Know
      12. Main Event
      13. Real Life
      14. Word for the Day
      15. Real Life
      16. Stats
      17. Word for the Day
      18. Stats
      19. Voice from the Past
      20. Word for the Day
      21. Stats
      22. Real Life
    35. Democracy (1992—)
      1. The Economy, Stupid
      2. Third Party Politics
      3. The New Right
      4. Right to Life
      5. Christian Right
      6. The Age of Rage
      7. Waco and Oklahoma City
      8. A Tale of Two Trials
      9. Rodney King
      10. O.J. Simpson
      11. E Pluribus Unum
      12. From Leave It to Beaver to Sesame Street to the Internet
      13. The Least You Need to Know
      14. Stats
      15. Word for the Day
      16. Word for the Day
      17. Word for the Day
      18. Real Life
      19. Stats
      20. Voice from the Past
      21. Main Event
      22. Stats
      23. Word for the Day