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Complete Idiot’s Guide to American History by Alan Axelrod Who’s on First? (50,000 B.C.-A.D. 1500S) A Stroll Across the Bering Sea 45,000 Years of American History (Abridged Version) The Anasazi The Mound Builders South of the Border The Maya The Incas Beyond the Aztec Frontier Pueblo Culture: The First American Frontier Atlantic Presence Leif the Lucky The Least You Heed to Know Stats Word for the Day Stats Real Life Columbus Days (1451-1507) It’s a Round World After All Son of a Weaver Trouble on the Horizon 10/12/92—That’s Fourteen 92 First Blood Carving Up a New World Three More Voyages Why We’re Not Called Columbia The Least You Need to Know Stats Voice from the Past New Spain, Same Old Spaniards (1400-1600s) The Way of the Conquistador Plumed Serpent Borderlands Onate the Terrible Birth of the “Black Legend” The First American Revolutions From Black Legend to Black Robes The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Word for the Day England’s Errands (1497-1608) O, Brave New World Henry VII Backs an Italian Sailor Passage to India? No Way A Colony Vanishes, a Colony Appears Roanoke Lost Jamestown Hangs by a Thread John Smith and Pocahontas The Least You Need to Know Stats Main Event Real Life Word for the Day Voice from the Past A Rock and a Hard Place (1608-1733) The New Israel Plymouth Rock Massachusetts Bay City on a Hill Rhode Island: Haven for the Heterodox Maryland: Catholics Welcome Pennsylvania: Quaker Colony Georgia: Utopia and Prison The Slaves of Virginia The Least You Need to Know Main Event Main Event Word for the Day They Could’ve Been Contenders (1608-1680s) Enter Champlain The Sun King Casts His Rays The Dutch Invest $24 in Manhattan Real Estate A Tale of Two Governors Sweden In the Delaware Valley New Netherland Becomes New York The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Word for the Day Word for the Day Word for the Day Fires in the Wilderness (1636-1748) New England Bleeds The Pequot War King Philip’s War The French and Indian Wars King William’s War Queen Anne’s War Tuscarora and Yemasee Wars King George’s War The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Word for the Day Stats Word for the Day Stats Global War—American Style (1749-1763) The French and Indian War First Blood for the Father of Our Country “Who Would Have Thought It?” Panic, Retreat, Retrenchment Seven Years of Bad Luck Paths of Glory Pontiac’s Rebellion The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Main Event Main Event Invitation to a Tea Party (1763-1775) King George Draws a Line Taxation Without Representation Stamps of Tyranny Act II Massacre in Boston From Tea Party to Continental Congress Intolerable Acts Continental Congress The Shot Heard ’Round the World Washington Backs a Long Shot A Thousand Fall Near Bunker Hill An Olive Branch Breaks and a Declaration Is Written Common Sense and Confederation The Least You Need to Know Real Life Main Event Stats Voice from the Past Stats Voice from the Past The Fires of Liberty (1776-1783) The Longest Odds Siege of Boston Down South A Pale Flush of Victory The British Lion Roars Recrossing the Delaware Saratoga Morning Trouble in the City of Brotherly Love Viva La France! A Hard Forge White War, Red Blood On Southern Fronts Triumph at Yorktown The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Word for the Day Real Life From Many, One (1787-1797) Rope of Sand Northwest Ordinance We the People… Constitutional Convention The Virginia Plan The New Jersey Plan Connecticut Compromise Three-Fifths of a Person Federalist Papers Father of His Country Glorious Afterthought: The Bill of Rights Secretary Hamilton The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Main Event Word for the Day Word for the Day Stats Real Life Main Event 1812 Overture (1798-1812) Foreign Affairs As Easy as XYZ Overreaction The Age of Jefferson Supreme Court Reigns Supreme A Purchase and a Journey Pirates and Embargo Tecumseh Rises The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Word for the Day Real Life Stats Main Event Washington Burns, a Nation Is Reborn (1812-1814) War Hawks Triumphant Three-Pronged Flop The Fall of Detroit Defeat on the Niagara Frontier A No-show in Canada The West in Flames British Blockade We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Ours O Say Can You See Salvation on Lake Champlain Hero of New Orleans The Least You Need to Know Stats Main Event Main Event Word for the Day Stats Fanfare for the Common Man (1814-1836) Good Feelings Erie Canal Among then Family of Nations Monroe Doctrine Bad Feelings American System Panic of 1819 Compromise Age of Jackson Common Man or King Andrew? The Monster The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Word for the Day Voice from the Past Word for the Day Trails of Tears (1817-1842) Liberty and Union, Now and Forever War with the Seminoles The Rise and Fall of Black Hawk The Indian Removal Act A Hollow Victory in the Supreme Court A Man Called Osceola “The Cruelest Work I Ever Knew” Indian Territory The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Voice from the Past Chains, Whips, and Heartbreak (1724-1857) Against the American Grain Cotton Gin Underground Railroad Nat Turner’s Rebellion The Liberator and the Narrative The Tortured Course of Compromise 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act The Dred Scott Disgrace The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Real Life Main Event Looking West (1834-1846) The Plow and the Reaper Cyrus McCormick John Deere Martyrdom at the Alamo Trails West Overland Trail Oregon Fever “What Hath God Wrought?” The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Stats Word for the Day Destiny (1846-1860) “Mr. Polk’s War” God and Gold A Trek All That Glitters The Least You Need to Know Main Event Word for the Day Strange Flag over Sumter (1859-1862) John Brown’s Body Bleak Transition April 12, 1861, 4:30 A.M. From Bull Run to Antietam Seven Days Back to Bull Run Perryville and Antietam Emancipation Proclaimed—More or Less The Least You Need to Know Stats Stats Real Life Real Life Stats Bloody Road to Appomattox and beyond (1863-1876) Four Score and Seven Vicksburg and Chattanooga Back to Richmond The March to the Sea The Country Courthouse With Malice Toward Some An Evening at Ford’s Theatre Reconstruction Abuses Articles of Impeachment His Fraudulency The Least You Need to Know Stats Voice from the Past Word for the Day Voice from the Past Sea to Shining Sea (1862-1878) Homesteaders The Sod Frontier Ruts and Rails Iron Road Golden Spike at Promontory The Least You Need to Know Stats Word for the Day Stats Main Event Word for the Day “The Only Good Indian…” (1862-1891) Blue, Gray—and Red A Man Called Cochise Southwestern Terror The Great Santee Sioux Massacre War for the Bozeman Rail The Campaigns of Hancock and Sheridan War for the Black Hills Defeat of Custer “I Will Fight No More Forever” The Geronimo Campaign Wounded Knee The Least You Need to Know Real Life Voice from the Past Real Life Voice from the Past From Panic to Empire (1869-1908) Empire of Cows American Cowboy Law and Disorder Jesse, Billy, and the Rest Cornering the Market Gould and Gold Rockefeller and Oil The Gospel of Wealth An Age of Invention “Mr. Watson, Come Here…” Let There Be Light Recorded Sound, Recorded Light Bridge and Skyscraper, Kitty Hawk and Detroit The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Stats Main Event Stats Octopus and Jungle (1877-1906) The Golden Door How the Other Half Lived Land Rush Knights of Labor The Great Strikes AFL I Won’t Work Tweed of Tammany Urban Reform Chicago Meat Muckrakers and Progressivism Government Takes a Hand The Least You Need to Know Voice from the Past Stats Main Event Word for the Day Word for the Day Real Life Word for the Day Over There (1898-1918) Color It Yellow “I’ll Furnish the War…” Remember the Maine! He Kept Us Out of War Lusitania Lost Zimmermann Note … Sate for Democracy Patriots and Slackers Over the Top Marne St. Mihiel Armistice The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Word for the Day Main Event Word for the Day Voice from the Past Word for the Day Stats Jazzed, Boozed, and Busted Flat (1918-1929) A League of Nations Red Scare End of the Dream A Generation Lost and Found Stein, Fitzgerald, Hemingway amp; Co. Women Get the Vote A Renaissance in Harlem America Dries Up Gangster Culture Countdown to Black Tuesday Joy Ride Crash The Least You Need to Know Voice from the Past Stats A New Deal and a New War (1930-1941) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Verge of Revolution The Epoch of FDR Government Redefined Urban War A New War Europe Darkens, Then Dies Infamy at Pearl The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Stats Main Event The “Good War” (1941-1945) I Shall Return Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Home Front Afrika Korps Coral Sea and Midway Island Hopping Mediterranean Shores The Beaches of France To Berlin and Victory in Europe Toward V-E Day Fat Man and Little Boy The Least You Need to Know Main Event Voice from the Past Stats Stats Real Life Main Event Stats Main Event Stats A Cold War and a Korean War (1944-1954) Winning the Peace The Birth of the United Nations Germany Divided Secretary Marshall’s Plan Curtain of Iron “Containing” Communism Airlift to Berlin Would the West back down? Would this be the start of World War III? Witch Hunts Police Action in Korea Invasion, Counterstrike, Invasion Meatgrinder Old Soldiers… Thrust, Counterthrust, and Stalemate Peace Table The Unhappiest Ally The Least You Heed to Know Main Event Word for the Day Voice from the Past Main Event Word for the Day Word for the Day Stats From the Back of the Bus to the Great Society (1947-1968) Executive Order 9981 The Dream Deferred Rosa Parks Boards a Bus Emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. Or Does It Explode? Emergence of Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement Sputnik and the New Frontier JFK “The Torch Has Been Passed…” Bay of Pigs and Brink of Armageddon An Autumn Day In Dallas LBJ War on Poverty Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Least You Need to Know Main Event Voice from the Past Voice from the Past Word for the Day Vietnam (1946-1975) Flashback The March to Dien Bien Phu Domino Theory American “Advisors” Flaming, Monks and the Fall of Diem Rolling Thunder Escalation and Vietnamization Hearts and Minds Hell, No! We Won’t Go! The Light at the End of the Tunnel Tet Offensive Resignation of Johnson Nixon’s War Paris, Cambodia, and Laos Death for Easter Bombs for Christmas Paris Accords and the Fall of Saigon The Least You Need to Know Stats Main Event Word for the day Main Event Word for the Day Of Love, the Moon, and Dirty Tricks (1968-1974) Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out Summer of Love The Eagle Has Landed Pentagon Papers SALT, China, and the Middle East CREEP Plumbers All the President’s Men The Least You Need to Know Main Event Word for the Day Real Life Women, Crisis, and a Call to the Great Communicator (1963-1980) A Woman’s Place From Rosie the Riveter to The Feminine Mystique The Power of the Pill NOW and Ms. ERA Sunset A Meeting of the Sheiks Made In Japan Frightening Cities, Crumbling Bridges Meltdown The Ayatollah The Great Communicator The Least You Need to Know Word for the Day Main Event Stats Stats Main Event Word for the Day A New Economy, a Plague, a Fallenwall, and a Desert in Flames (1980-1991) Supply Side and Trickle Down Greed Is Good Black Monday “Gay Plaque” and a Blind Eye “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!” Star Wars Arm Wrestle The Wall Falls Ollie, Iran, and the Contras Desert Shield and Desert Storm New World Order The Least You Need to Know Main Event Real Life Word for the Day Real Life Stats Word for the Day Stats Voice from the Past Word for the Day Stats Real Life Democracy (1992—) The Economy, Stupid Third Party Politics The New Right Right to Life Christian Right The Age of Rage Waco and Oklahoma City A Tale of Two Trials Rodney King O.J. Simpson E Pluribus Unum From Leave It to Beaver to Sesame Street to the Internet The Least You Need to Know Stats Word for the Day Word for the Day Word for the Day Real Life Stats Voice from the Past Main Event Stats Word for the Day
A Stroll Across the Bering Sea Several times during what paleontologists call the Quaternary Period—that’s their name for the last two million years—a “land bridge” emerged in the Bering and Chukchi Seas as the sea level dropped due to the expansion of the ice cap surrounding the North Pole. The theory is that anywhere from 10,000 to 45,000 years ago, human beings used the Bering land bridge to enter the New World, migrating from what is now northeast Asia to northwestern North America. Beringia, as the land bridge is sometimes called, disappeared when the major continental ice sheets and other glaciers melted, causing the sea level to rise again.