The Xenophile Historian

Contents

(and malcontents)

Chapter 1: Pre-Columbian America and the Age of Exploration

Before 1607

	Introduction
	It Began With the Ice Age
	"Five Hundred Nations"
	The Mound Builders
	The Cliff Dwellers
	Who Really Discovered America?
	The Egyptians
	The Chinese
	The Celts
	The Vikings
	How Many Indians?
	America's Forgotten History
	The First English Explorations
	The Conquistadors Who Drew the Map of America
	The Seven Cities of Gold
	The Cross and the Sword
	Santa Elena
	The Chesapeake Mission
	The Ultimate Corsair
	The Search for a Northwest Passage (continued)
	The Lost Colony
	Epilogue

Chapter 2: Colonial America

1607 to 1783

Part I

	Jamestown
	The Search for a Northwest Passage (concluded)
	The Founding of New France
	They Came on the Mayflower
	New Netherland
	Colonization: The Second Generation
	New Amsterdam Becomes New York
	The Last French Explorers

Part II

	Colonial Growing Pains, and the Founding of Pennsylvania
	The Importance of the Religious Element
	The Lone Star Colony
	Sideshows to European Wars
	The French and Indian War
	Pontiac's Rebellion
	Causes of the American Revolution

Part III

	The California Missions
	"The Shot Heard 'Round the World"
	Through the Cumberland Gap
	From Fort Ticonderoga to Boston
	The Declaration of Independence
	The (British) Empire Strikes Back
	Saratoga: The Turning Point
	Valley Forge and the Battles for Philadelphia
	On the Wild Frontier
	Showdown at Yorktown
	The Treaty That Ended It All

Chapter 3: Pioneer America

1783 to 1861 (USA), 1783 to 1867 (Canada)

Part I

	Unfinished Business With the Tories
	Canada Reaches the Pacific
	The Articles of Confederation
	The Writing of the Constitution
	Ratification
	"First In the Hearts of His Countrymen"
	John Adams at the Helm
	Republicanism, Jeffersonian Style

Part II

	The War of 1812
	Preliminary Activities
	Campaigns of 1812
	Campaigns of 1813
	The Creek War
	Campaigns of 1814 and 1815
	The Era of Good Feelings
	Adams Redux
	Old Hickory's Democrats

Part III

	Deep in the Heart of Texas
	Old Kinderhook, Tippecanoe, and Tyler Too
	The Canadian Rebellions of 1837
	The Search for a Northwest Passage (revisited)
	Westward Ho!
	The Cheerful Forties
	"From the Halls of Montezuma"

Part IV

	Mormons, Doughfaces, and the California Gold Rush
	The Free Soil Republicans
	A House Divided
	Meanwhile, North of the 49th Parallel
	Early American Demographics

Chapter 4: Industrial America

1861 to 1933 (USA)

Part I

	America's Most Difficult Years
	The Disunited States
	Choose the Blue or the Gray
	Campaigns of 1861
	The Western Theater, 1862
	The Eastern Theater, 1862
	The Copperheads and Lincoln's Masterpiece
	The Western Theater, 1863
	The Eastern Theater, 1863

Part II

	The Western Theater, 1864
	The Eastern Theater, 1864
	Campaigns of 1865
	The End of the CSA
	Reconstruction
	The Alaska Purchase, and the Only American Emperor
	Grant and the Beginning of the Grand Old Party Era

Part III

	The Panic of 1873, and the Barons of Wall Street
	The South Restored, and the Worst Happy Hunting Grounds
	The Great Railroad Strike
	The Spoils System Kills the President
	Grover the Good
	"I Will Fight No More Forever"
	The Great Barbecue
	The Gay Nineties

Part IV

	The Spanish-American War
	Teddy and the Big Stick
	Big Taft and the Bull Moose
	Wilson the Reformer
	World War I
	Part 1: Sitting It Out
	Part 2: Over Here
	Part 3: Rejecting the Peace

Part V

	The Age of Normalcy Begins
	The Roaring Twenties
	The Great Depression
	The Golden Age of Immigration

Chapter 5: The American Superpower

1933 to 2009 (USA)

Part I

	First, an Explanation of the Title
	The New Deal
	New Deal II
	Getting Out of the Depression--The Hard Way
	The Gathering Storm
	Pearl Harbor
	World War II

Part II

	The Country Boy From Missouri
	Enter the Cold War
	China, Korea, and the Pumpkin Papers
	"I Like Ike"
	Life in the 1950s

Part III

	The "New Frontier"
	Who Really Killed JFK?
	The "Great Society"
	Nixon Returns
	"All the President's Men"

Part IV

	Years of "Malaise"
	The Reagan Renaissance
	George Bush the Elder

Part V

	Clintonism
	The Clinton Scandals
	Islamism on the Move
	The Battle of the Ballots
	George Bush the Younger
	Angry Democrats, Drifting Republicans
	An Election Like No Other

Part VI

	The American People Today
	Going South (and West)
	The Grey Generation
	The New Americans
	The Browning of America
	The Incredible Expanding Government
	Federal Spending
	Federal Agencies
	Taxes and Regulation
	The Cabinet
	From History to Current Events

A Guide to U.S. Presidential Elections

The Black Muslims: A Special Feature

(Coming soon)

Chapter 6: The Great Wide North: Canada Since 1867