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Witness to America : an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today
- Title
- Witness to America : an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today / Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors].
- Publication
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-USLHG E173 .W78 1999 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121 |
| Text | Request in advance | *BLF-203 | Offsite |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 605 p. : ill.; 29 cm. +
- Uniform Title
- Heritage of America.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Lou Reda book."
- Rev., updated ed. of: The heritage of America / edited by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins. Rev. and enl. ed. 1949.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-597) and index.
- 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 arrested 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.
- Call Number
- E173
- ISBN
- 0062716115
- LCCN
- 99023797
- OCLC
- 41400736
- Title
- Witness to America : an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today / Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors].
- Imprint
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1999.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-597) and index.
- Added Author
- Ambrose, Stephen E.Brinkley, Douglas.
- Added Title
- Heritage of America.
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG E173 .W78 1999 [Text]*BLF-203 [CD]