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Exploration and conquest - Cortes and Moctezuma; American profile -Francesco-Giuseppe Bressani, James Axtell. The plantation colonies -the founding of Jamestown; American profile - Squanto, Elliott West.Puritan New England - the witches of Salem; American profile - AnneHutchinson, Ann Braude. The American Revolution - the Boston massacre;American profile - Samuel Adams, Jack N. Rakove. The new republic - theconstitutional convention. Jeffersonian America - the Lewis and Clarkexpedition; American profile - John Marshall, Joseph J. Ellis.Jacksonian America - the people's inauguration. Slavery in theAntebellum South - Nat Turner's revolt; American profile - WilliamLloyd Garrison, Ira Berlin. Social reform in Antebellum America - theSeneca Falls Convention; American profile - Harriet Beecher Store, JoanHedrick. The deepening sectional conflict - the compromise of 1850;American profile - Matthew C. Perry, John W. Dower. The road to civilwar - John Brown's raid; American profile - Harriet Tubman, CatherineClinton. Civil war and reconstruction - Sherman's march to the sea;American profile - Thaddeus Stevens, Eric Foner. The American West -the Battle of the Little Bighorn; American profile - Quanah Parker,Elliot West. The gilded age - the Pullman Strike; American profile -John Fiske, David Levering Lewis. The crisis of the 1890s - the 1896election. Becoming a world power - the Filipino revolt; Americanprofile - Henry Cabot Lodge, Thomas Fleming. The progressive era - thetriangle fire; American profile - Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Barone.The new era - Lindbergh's flight; American profile - Robert A.Millikan, Daniel J. Kevles. The new deal - the hundred days; Americanprofile - Jim Braddock & Joe Louis, Geoffrey C. Ward. World War II -the attack of Pearl Harbour; American profile - Wendell L. Willkie,Robert Dallek. The Cold War at home - the Hiss-Chambers Case; Americanprofile - Lillian Hellman, Alice Kessler-Harris. Pax Americana - theCuban Missile Crisis; American profile - George F. Kennan, RobertDallek. The sixties - the march on Washington; American profile - CoyaKnutson, Richard Reeves. The seventies - the Watergate Crisis; Americanprofile - Jimmy Carter, William E. Leuchtenburg. The end of the ColdWar - the last days of the Soviet Union. A new millennium - September11, 2001.