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I. The European Discovery 1. David E. Stannard, The American Holocaust:Columbus and the Conquest of the New World 2. Page Smith, From TheseBeginnings II. The First Century 3. Gary B. Nash, Black People in a WhitePeople's Country 4. John Demos, The Deerfield Massacre III. Transformations5. Paula A. Treckel, "The Empire of My Heart": The Marriage of William ByrdII and Lucy Parke Byrd 6. Walter Isaacson, Citizen Ben: A Worldly American'sSeven Great Virtues IV. "When in the Course of Human Events..." 7. DavidMcCullough, John Adams and the Coming of the Revolution 8. Douglas L. Wilson,Thomas Jefferson and the Meanings of Liberty V. Birth of the Republic 9. H.W. Brands, Miracle at Philadelphia 10. Gordon S. Wood, The Greatness ofGeorge Washington VI. Patterns of Society 11. Jack Larkin, The Personal Sideof a Developing People 12. Sally G. McMillen, "I'm Almost Worn Out in theCause": Motherhood and Childbearing in the Old South VII. The Nation TakesShape 13. Joseph J. Ellis, The Duel 14. Brian McGinty, The Great ChiefJustice VIII. Woe If It Comes with Storm and Blood and Fire 15. Stephen B.Oates, The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion 16. Ira Berlin, "IWill Be Heard!": William Lloyd Garrison and the Struggle Against Slavery IX.The Age of Jackson 17. John F. Marszalek, Andrew Jackson: Flamboyant Hero ofthe Common Man 18. Joe B. Frantz, A Giant of Contradictions: TheIrrepressible Sam Houston X. The Growth of Technology 19. Peter L. Bernstein,The Erie Canal: The Waterway That Shaped a Great Nation 20. Steven Yafa,Camelot on the Merrimack XI. Beyond the Mississippi 21. Dee Brown, The Trailof Tears 22. Johnny Faragher and Christine Stansell, Women and Their Familieson the Overland Trails XII. "To Make Them Stand in Fear": The SlaveowningSouth 23. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Runaways from a HellishSystem 24. Benjamin Quarles, Let My People Go: Harriet Tubman and theUnderground Railroad XIII. The Death of Slavery 25. Ken Chowder, The Fatherof American Terrorism 26. Stephen B. Oates, Lincoln's Journey to EmancipationXIV. The Scourge of Civil War 27. Stephen B. Oates, The Ravages of War 28.Bruce Catton, Hayfoot, Strawfoot! XV. A Troubled Peace 29. James OliverHorton and Lois E. Horton, "Call Me Mister": The Black Experience DuringReconstruction 30. Eric Foner, The Checkered History of the Great FourteenthAmendment