Title
I wish I’d been there : twenty historians bring to life dramatic events that changed America / edited by Byron Hollinshead.
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Doubleday, c2006.
Format
Book
Description
xi, 338 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Link
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006041125-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006041125-d.html
Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0625/2006041125-s.html
Variant title
I wish I had been there
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
|A day in Cahokia, AD 1030 /| Biloine W. Young --| |The Salem witchcraft trials /| Mary Beth Norton --| |George Washington and the Newburgh conspiracy /| Carol Berkin --| |The McGillivray moment /| Joseph J. Ellis --| |Meriwether Lewis on the Divide /| Carolyn Gilman --| |The corrupt bargain /| Robert V. Remini --| |The Amistad trial /| Paul C. Nagel --| |James K. Polk and the 1844 election /| Robert W. Johannsen --| |Jenny Lind’s American debut, 1850 /| Philip B. Kunhardt III --| |With John Brown at Harpers Ferry /| Thomas Fleming --| |The day Lincoln was shot /| Jay Winik --| |Chief Joseph surrenders /| Mark Stevens --| |La Follette speaks against the war, 1917 /| Bernard Weisberger --| |The road to Butgnéville, November 11, 1918 /| Robert Cowley --| |Trying John Scopes /| Jonathan Rabb --| |Lost-found nation : the last meeting between Elijah Muhammad and W.D. Fard /| Kevin Baker --| |The sick man in the White House /| Geoffrey C. Ward --| |JFK and RFK meet about Vietnam /| Robert Dallek --| |Memory, history, and the March on Washington /| Clayborne Carson --| |Lyndon Johnson confronts George Wallace /| William E. Leuchtenburg.|
ISBN
0385516193
9780385516198
Subject
United States -- History -- Anecdotes.
Add.Entry
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