List of Illustrations
Introduction by Byron Hollinshead
BILOINE W. YOUNG
A Day in Cahokia—AD 1030
MARY BETH NORTON
The Salem Witchcraft Trials
CAROL BERKIN
George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy
JOSEPH J. ELLIS
The McGillivray Moment
CAROLYN GILMAN
Meriwether Lewis on the Divide
ROBERT V. REMINI
The Corrupt Bargain
PAUL C. NAGEL
The Amistad Trial
ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN
James K. Polk and the 1844 Election
PHILIP B. KUNHARDT III
Jenny Lind’s American Debut, 1850
THOMAS FLEMING
WIth John Brown at Harpers Ferry
JAY WINIK
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
MARK STEVENS
Chief Joseph Surrenders
BERNARD WEISBERGER
La Follette Speaks against the War—1917
ROBERT COWLEY
The Road to Butgneville—November 11, 1918
JONATHAN RABB
Trying John Scopes
KEVIN BAKER
Lost-Found Nation: The Last Meeting between Elijah Muhammad and W.
D. Fard
GEOFFERY C. WARD
The Sick Man in the White House
ROBERT DALLEK
JFK and RFK Meet about Vietnam
CLAYBORNE CARSON
Memory, History, and the March on Washington
WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG
Lyndon Johnson Confronts George Wallace
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Byron Hollinshead is president of American Historical Publications, a producer of books in history for adults and for children. Previously, he was president of American Heritage Publishing Company and Oxford University Press, Inc. He was publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and Time Machine: American History for Kids. He is a former president of National History Day and, currently, vice-chair of The National Council for History Education. Hollinshead has been a consultant to several PBS documentaries in history including, most recently, Freedom: A History of US, a sixteen part series from Kunhardt Productions. As an editor and publisher, Mr. Hollinshead has worked with many of the authors in this anthology on their previous books and articles.
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