Don't know much about history : everything you need to know about American history but never learned /
"From Columbus through to the twenty-first century, Don't Know Much About History takes readers on a tour through more than 500 years of American life. Drawing on the latest scholarship and new archaeological discoveries, Davis presents a thorough overview of American history that is excit...
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| Edition: | 30th anniversary edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Brave new world
- Say you want a revolution
- Growth of a nation: from the creation of the Constitution to manifest destiny
- Apocalypse then: to civil war and reconstruction
- When Monopoly wasn't a game: the growing empire from the Wild West to World War I
- Boom to bust to big boom: from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression to HIroshima
- Commies, containment, and Cold War: America in the Fifties
- The torch is passed: from Camelot to Hollywood on the Potomac
- From the evil empire to the Axis of Evil
- The Bill of Rights and other Constitutional amendments
- Is the Electoral College a party school? A presidential election primer
- U.S. Presidents and their administrations.