Description
This book focuses on the historic ramifications of a handful of essential events that shaped the American past. It describes the causes of a select number of epoch-making events and examines the short- and long-term consequences of these critical turning point moments.
Table of Contents
1. A Nation Divides, April 12, 1861: Fort Sumter and the Era of the American Civil War 2. Presidential Bargaining, February 26, 1877: The Compromise of 1877 and the Price of National Unity 3. The Sinking of the Maine, February 15, 1898: The Spanish-American War and the Emergence of America as a World Power 4. The Silencing of Woodrow Wilson, September 25, 1919: Peace, Normalcy, and the Rise of American Isolationism 5. The Day of Infamy, December 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor and the Transformation of the Modern World 6. A Nation Mourns, November 22, 1963: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the End of American Innocence 7. America Taken Hostage, November 4, 1979: The Iranian Hostage Crisis and the Restructuring of the World Order 8. Terrorists Stun America, September 11, 2001: Negotiating Security and Liberty in the Twenty-first Century
