Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction by Byron Hollinshead

BILOINE W. YOUNG
A Day in Cahokia—AD 1030

MARY BETH NORTON
The Salem Witchcraft Trials

CAROL BERKIN
George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy

JOSEPH J. ELLIS
The McGillivray Moment

CAROLYN GILMAN
Meriwether Lewis on the Divide

ROBERT V. REMINI
The Corrupt Bargain

PAUL C. NAGEL
The Amistad Trial

ROBERT W. JOHANNSEN
James K. Polk and the 1844 Election

PHILIP B. KUNHARDT III
Jenny Lind’s American Debut, 1850

THOMAS FLEMING
WIth John Brown at Harpers Ferry

JAY WINIK
The Day Lincoln Was Shot

MARK STEVENS
Chief Joseph Surrenders

BERNARD WEISBERGER
La Follette Speaks against the War—1917

ROBERT COWLEY
The Road to Butgneville—November 11, 1918

JONATHAN RABB
Trying John Scopes

KEVIN BAKER
Lost-Found Nation: The Last Meeting between Elijah Muhammad and W. D. Fard

GEOFFERY C. WARD
The Sick Man in the White House

ROBERT DALLEK
JFK and RFK Meet about Vietnam

CLAYBORNE CARSON
Memory, History, and the March on Washington

WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG
Lyndon Johnson Confronts George Wallace

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits

About the Author

Byron Hollinshead is president of American Historical Publications, a producer of books in history for adults and for children. Previously, he was president of American Heritage Publishing Company and Oxford University Press, Inc. He was publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and Time Machine: American History for Kids. He is a former president of National History Day and, currently, vice-chair of The National Council for History Education. Hollinshead has been a consultant to several PBS documentaries in history including, most recently, Freedom: A History of US, a sixteen part series from Kunhardt Productions. As an editor and publisher, Mr. Hollinshead has worked with many of the authors in this anthology on their previous books and articles.

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