What they didn't teach you in American history class /
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- In the beginning : the early arrivals and the young colonies
- Freedom : what a revolutionary idea!
- Welcome to the new nation
- The war of 1812...and 1813...and 1814...and 1815
- 1815-1865 : growing pains
- There's nothing civil about war
- Abraham Lincoln : days of dreams and nightmares
- Before there was law and order, there was the wild West!
- The inventors : lots of new stuff
- 1900-1916 : don't get stuck in the bath tub!
- World War I : from Pancho to Paris
- Between the wars, 1918-1941 : other than the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and Hitler...things were pretty good
- World War II : that German guy sure has a funny mustache!
- 1945-1949 : the forties are finished and Dewey lost again
- The fifties : in the event of a nuclear attack, get under a table!
- It's the sixties : far out, man
- The seventies : there were crooks in the White House and everyone had disco fever!
- The eighties : the president looks just like this guy that I saw the other night in an old movie!
- The nineties : denials, trials and the .com market!
- The 21st century : terrorism and Twitter
- Never follow a legend
- Epilogue: The last word.