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245 00 $aWitness to America :$ban illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today /$cStephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors].
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins Publishers,$c℗♭1999.
300 $axv, 605 pages :$billustrations ;$c29 cm +$e1 audio disc (73 min., 56 sec. : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.)
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500 $a"A Lou Reda book."
500 $aRev., updated ed. of: The heritage of America / edited by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins. Rev. and enl. ed. 1949.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 591-597) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
505 8 $aThe 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.
505 0 $aAudio 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.
520 $aIncludes over 150 eyewitness accounts of events in American history including works from prominent historical figures and ordinary people.
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