Revolution and Founding
1776-1815 |
| •Alfred F. Young on a Shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party |
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| •Pauline Maier on Declaring Independence |
| •Jack N. Rakove on Creating the Constitution |
| •Robert Scigliano on The Federalist Papers |
| •Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings |
| •Roger G. Kennedy on the American and French Revolutions |
| •Bernard A. Weisberger on the Contested Election of 1800 |
| •Arnold A. Rogow on the Hamilton-Burr Duel |
| •Michael H. Cottman on the Slave Ship Henrietta Marie |
The Young Nation
1815 - 1850 |
| •Joyce Appleby on the First Generation of Americans |
| •Andrew Burstein on Celebrating Fifty Years of Independence |
| •Harvey Mansfield on Tocqueville's Democracy in America |
Slavery and the Civil War
1850 - 1865 |
| •Stephen B. Oates on the Buildup to the Civil War |
| •James McPherson on Volunteer Soldiers |
| •Drew Gilpin Faust on Women of the Slaveholding South |
| •Joseph E. Stevens on the Events of 1863 |
| •James M. Perry on Civil War Correspondents |
| •Brooks D. Simpson on Ulysses S. Grant's Military Career |
| •Douglas L. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Lerone Bennett Jr., and Differing Perspectives on Abraham Lincoln |
| •H.W. Crocker III, Tom Wheeler, and the Leadership of Robert E. Lee |
| •William J. Cooper Jr. on Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy |
Rebuilding America and the Gilded Age
1865 - 1901 |
| •Wiltold Rybczynski on Frederick Law Olmsted and the Building of Central Park |
| •David Haward Bain on the Transcontinental Railroad |
| •H. Paul Jeffers on Grover Cleveland's Political Career |
| •H.W. Brands on the Events of the 1890s |
| •Ben Procter on William Randolph Hearst and the Rise of Yellow Journalism |
| •Jean Strouse on J.P. Morgan, National Banker |
Progressive Era and Reaction
1901 - 1929 |
| •Linda O. McMurry on the crusades of Ida B. Wells |
| •Dorothy Herrmann on the Celebrite of Helen Keller |
| •Gina Kolata on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic |
| •Emily Bernard on Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten |
| •Edward J. Larson on the Scopes "Monkey" Trial |
| •Robert A. Slayton on Al Smith and the 1928 Election |
| •Larry Tye on Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations |
| •A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh's Reluctant Public Life |
| •Peter Collier on the Roosevelt Dynasty |
Depression and War
1929 - 1945 |
| •David M. Kennedy on the Great Depression and World War II |
| •Allan Weinstein on the Early Days of Soviet Espionage |
| •Elizabeth M. Norman on the Nurses Captured on Bataan |
| •Amity Shlaes on the Creation of the Withholding Tax |
| •James Bradley on Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima |
| •Tom Brokaw on the World War II Generation |
| •Nicholas Lemann on the Great Black Migration |
| •Sally Bedell Smith , David Brinkley, Peter Jennings, and Early Network News |
Early Cold War
1945 - 1957 |
| •David Fromkin on Five Men Who Shaped the Post-World War II World |
| •Christopher Matthews on the Unlikely Kennedy-Nixon Friendship |
| •Jean Edward Smith on Lucius D. Clay and Postwar Berlin |
| •Zachary Karabell on Truman Defeats Dewey |
| •Arthur Herman on the Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy |
| •Norman Podhoretz on the New York Intelligentsia |
Social Transformation
1957 - 1975 |
| •Roy Reed on Orval Faubus and the Desegregating of Central High School |
| •Robert Dallek on Lyndon Johnson and the 1960 Election |
| •Jay Parini on Robert Frost and the Kennedy Inauguration |
| •Donald Kagan on the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| •Andrew Young on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail |
| •Diane McWhorter on the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing |
| •Ben Bradlee on the Kennedy Years |
| •Arlen Specter on the Warren Commission |
| •Jeff Shesol on the RFK-LBJ Feud |
| •Anthony Lewis on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan |
| •Jon Margolis on Stories from 1964 |
| •Tinsley E. Yarbrough on John Marshall Harlan and the Warren Court |
| •Leonard Garment on Getting to Know Richard M. Nixon |
| •Charles V. Hamilton on the Life and Career of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. |
| •Elizabeth Taylor on Richard J. Daley and Chicago's Political Machine |
| •Peter R. Kann and Frances FitzGerald on Reporting from Vietnam |
| •Stuart I. Rochester on American POWs in Vietnam |
The Culture Wars
1975 - 2000 |
| •Irving Kristol, Nina J. Easton, and the Rise of the Neoconservatives |
| •Kiron K. Skinner on the Forgotten Radio Scripts of Ronald Reagan |
| •John A. Farrell on the Political Lore of Tip O'Neill |
| •Shelby Steele, Cornel West, Thomas Sowell, Randall Robinson: A Symposium on Race |
| •Don Oberdorfer on the Reagan-Gorbachev Summits |
| •Marlin Fitzwater on Reagan, Bush, and the Press |
| •Bob Woodward on Planning the Persian Gulf War |
| •John Podhoretz on the Last Days of the First Bush White House |
| •Richard E. Cohen on Dan Rostenkowski's Fall from Power |
| •Tim Russert on a Half-Century of Meet the Press |
| •Bonnie Angelo on Modern Presidents' Mothers |
| •Jeff Greenfield, Ralph Nader on the 2000 election |
| •Peter Bergen on September 11 and Osama bin Laden |
| •Bernard Lewis on September 11 and the Roots of Islamic Terrorism |
Booknotes: Stories from American History
