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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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United States -- History -- Sources.
United States -- History -- Pictorial works.
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Witness to America :...
MARC Display
Witness to America : an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today / Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors].
New York : HarperCollins, c1999.
Subjects
United States -- History -- Sources.
United States -- History -- Pictorial works.
ISBN:
0062716115 :
Description:
xv, 605 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Audio 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 arested 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.
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973 Wi
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973 Wi
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