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The Anglo-American Adventure
Contents
(and malcontents)
Chapter 1: Native America
Before 1607
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Introduction |
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It Began With the Ice Age |
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"Five Hundred Nations" |
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The Mound Builders |
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The Cliff Dwellers |
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The March of the Inuit |
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Who Really Discovered America? |
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 The Egyptians |
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The Chinese |
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The Celts |
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The Vikings |
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How Many Indians? |
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America's Forgotten History |
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The Tribes That Met the White Man First |
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Fish Stories |
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The Conquistadors Who Drew the Map of America |
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The Seven Cities of Gold |
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Cartier's Misadventures |
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The Cross and the Sword: Charlesfort |
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The Cross and the Sword: Fort Caroline |
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Santa Elena |
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The Chesapeake Mission |
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The Ultimate Corsair |
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The Search for a Northwest Passage (continued) |
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The Lost Colony |
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Epilogue |
Chapter 2: Colonial America
1607 to 1783
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Jamestown |
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The Search for a Northwest Passage (concluded) |
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The Founding of New France |
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They Came on the Mayflower |
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New Netherland |
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Colonization: The Second Generation |
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New Amsterdam Becomes New York |
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Carolina |
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The Last French Explorers |
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Colonial Growing Pains, Part 1 |
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The Founding of Pennsylvania |
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The Importance of the Religious Element |
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The Lone Star Colony |
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Colonial Growing Pains, Part 2 |
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Sideshows to European Wars |
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The French and Indian War |
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Pontiac's Rebellion |
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Causes of the American Revolution |
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The California Missions |
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"The Shot Heard 'Round the World" |
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Through the Cumberland Gap |
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From Fort Ticonderoga to Boston |
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The Declaration of Independence |
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The (British) Empire Strikes Back |
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Saratoga: The Turning Point |
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Valley Forge and the Battles for Philadelphia |
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On the Wild Frontier |
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Showdown at Yorktown |
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The Treaty That Ended It All |
Chapter 3: Pioneer America
1783 to 1861 (USA), 1783 to 1867 (Canada)
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Unfinished Business With the Tories |
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Canada Reaches the Pacific |
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The Articles of Confederation |
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The Writing of the Constitution |
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Ratification |
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"First In the Hearts of His Countrymen" |
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John Adams at the Helm |
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Republicanism, Jeffersonian Style |
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The Lewis & Clark and Pike Expeditions |
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Aaron Burr Kills Hamilton |
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The War of 1812 |
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Preliminary Activities |
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Campaigns of 1812 |
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Campaigns of 1813 |
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The Creek War |
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Campaigns of 1814 |
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The Battle of New Orleans |
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The Era of Good Feelings |
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Adams Redux |
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Old Hickory's Democrats |
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The End of the Beothuk |
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Deep in the Heart of Texas |
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Old Kinderhook, Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too |
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The Canadian Rebellions of 1837 |
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The Search for a Northwest Passage (revisited) |
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Westward Ho! |
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The Cheerful Forties |
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"From the Halls of Montezuma" |
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Mormons, Doughfaces, and the California Gold Rush |
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The Free Soil Republicans |
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A House Divided |
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The Utah War and the Colorado Gold Rush |
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Meanwhile, North of the 49th Parallel |
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Early American Demographics |
Chapter 4: Industrial America
1861 to 1933 (USA)
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America's Most Difficult Years |
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The Disunited States |
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Choose the Blue or the Gray |
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Campaigns of 1861 |
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Finding New Ways into the People's Pockets |
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The Western Theater, 1862 |
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The Eastern Theater, 1862 |
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The Copperheads and Lincoln's Masterpiece |
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The Western Theater, 1863 |
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The Eastern Theater, 1863 |
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The Western Theater, 1864 |
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The Eastern Theater, 1864 |
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Campaigns of 1865 |
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The End of the CSA |
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Reconstruction |
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The Free State of Van Zandt |
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The Alaska Purchase, and the Only American Emperor |
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Grant and the Beginning of the Grand Old Party Era |
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The Brooks-Baxter War |
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The Panic of 1873, and the Barons of Wall Street |
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The South Restored, and the Worst Happy Hunting Grounds |
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The Great Railroad Strike |
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The Spoils System Kills the President |
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Grover the Good |
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"I Will Fight No More Forever" |
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The Great Barbecue |
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The Gay Nineties |
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The Spanish-American War |
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Teddy and the Big Stick |
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Big Taft and the Bull Moose |
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Wilson the Reformer |
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World War I |
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Part 1: Sitting It Out |
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Part 2: Over Here |
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Part 3: Rejecting the Peace |
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The Age of Normalcy Begins |
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The Roaring Twenties |
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The Great Depression |
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The Golden Age of Immigration |
Chapter 5: Pax Americana
1933 to 2008 (USA)
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First, an Explanation of the Title |
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The New Deal |
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New Deal II |
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Getting Out of the Depression--The Hard Way |
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The Gathering Storm |
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Pearl Harbor |
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World War II |
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The Country Boy From Missouri |
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Enter the Cold War |
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China, Korea, and the Pumpkin Papers |
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"I Like Ike" |
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Life in the 1950s |
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The "New Frontier" |
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Who Really Killed JFK? |
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The "Great Society" |
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Nixon Returns |
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"All the President's Men" |
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Years of "Malaise" |
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The Reagan Renaissance |
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George Bush the Elder |
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Clintonism |
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The Clinton Scandals |
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Islamism on the Move |
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The Battle of the Ballots |
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George Bush the Younger |
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Angry Democrats, Drifting Republicans |
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Modern American Demographics |
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Going South (and West) |
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The Grey Generation |
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The New Americans |
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The Browning of America |
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An Election Like No Other |
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The Incredible Expanding Government |
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Federal Spending |
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Federal Agencies |
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Taxes and Regulation |
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The Cabinet |
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From History to Current Events |
Chapter 7: The Great White North
Canada Since 1867
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The Story So Far |
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Early Canadian Politics, and the Mapleleaf Flag |
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The Original Provinces |
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The Red River Rebellion |
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British Columbia and Prince Edward Island Enter the Dominion |
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The Northwest Rebellion |
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The Laurier Years |
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The Klondike Gold Rush |
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Here Come Alberta and Saskatchewan |
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World War I, the Conscription Crisis, and the Unionists |
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The Mackenzie King Era |
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The Dominion of Newfoundland |
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Postwar Canada |
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The Conservatives Return From the Wilderness--But Not For Long |
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Pierre Trudeau, Part I |
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The Rise of Quebec Separatism |
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Pierre Trudeau, Part II |
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Neo-Conservatism, Canadian Style |
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Political Uncertainty in the 1990s |
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Recent Events |
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Canada Today |
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