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Presents First-hand Observations On People And Events In American History, From Columbus To Cyberspace, Told Through The Words Of 300 Eyewitnesses In Diaries, Private Letters, Memoirs, And Newspaper Reports. The Old World Discovers The New World, October 10-13,1492 / Bartolomé De Las Casas -- Columbus Meets The Native Americans, October 12, 1492 / Christopher Columbus -- Epidemic At Stadacona, And A Cure, February 1536 / Jacques Cartier -- The Founding Of St. Augustine, August 25-september 8, 1565 / Francisco López De Mendoza Grajales -- Sir Francis Drake Claims A Kingdom, June 17, 1579 / Francis Fletcher -- Virginia, July 2-4, 1584 / Captain Arthur Barlow -- The Lost Colony, 1590 / John White -- The Founding Of Jamestown, May 13, 1607 / John Smith -- Pocahontas Saves John Smith, January 1608 / John Smith -- The First Representative Assembly In America, July 30, 1619 / John Twine. Cont.): The Pilgrims' Landing And First Winter, November 21, 1620 -- March 20, 1621 / William Bradford -- The Maypole Of Merry-mount, May 1, 1628 / Thomas Morton -- Roger Williams Demands Freedom Of Religion, 1634-1636 / Nathaniel Morton -- Stuyvesant's Bad Government, 1647 / Junker Van Der Donck And Others -- An Angry Slave, October 2, 1663 / John Josselyn -- Jolliet And Marquette Travel The Mississippi, June 10-17, 1673 / Father Jacques Marquette -- King Philip's War: Mary Rowlandson Is Captured, Februry 10, 1675 / Mary Rowlandson -- New York And Environs, September 24-october 11, 1679 / Jaspar Danckaerts And Peter Sluyter -- Harvard Students, July 9, 1680 / Jaspar Danckaerts And Peter Sluyter. Cont.): Trial Of Witches Susannah Martin And Mary Lacey, 1692 / Ezekiel Cheever And Cotton Mather -- Freedom Of The Press, August 4, 1735 / John Peter Zenger -- The March Of The Acadians During The French And Indian War, August 30-september 5, 1755 / Colonel John Winslow -- James Otis Starts A Fire, February 24, 1761 / John Adams -- A Mob Confronts A Stamp Distributor, October 30, 1765 / Francis Fauquier -- Franklin Argues Against The Stamp Act In The British Parliament, February 13, 1766 / Unofficial Transcript -- The Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770 / John Tudor -- The Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773 / John Andrews -- The First Continental Congress, September-october 1774 / John Adams -- Patrick Henry's Speech, March 23, 1775 / Edmund Randolph. Cont.): Lanterns In The North Church Steeple, April 18, 1775 / Paul Revere -- Standoff At Lexington, April 19, 1775 / Jonas Clark -- The Shot Heard 'round The World, April 20, 1775 / William Emerson -- Washington Is Chosen For Command, June 15, 1775 / John Adams -- Jefferson Is Selected To Write The Declaration Of Independence, June, 1776 / John Adams -- Young Jefferson Gets Some Advice From Ben Franklin, July 1776 / Thomas Jefferson -- The Declaration's Missing Clause, July 1776 / Thomas Jefferson -- Signing The Declaration, August 2, 1776 / Dr. Benjamin Rush -- Recruiting Trouble, 1776 / Captain Alexander Graydon -- Winter At Valley Forge, December 12, 1777-january 8, 1778 / Dr. Albigence Waldo. Cont.): Yankees Invade Great Britain, April 22-23, 1778 / Captain John Paul Jones -- John Paul Jones Refuses To Surrender, September 23, 1779 / Lieutenant Richard Dale -- Cornwallis Surrenders, October 19, 1781 / Lt. General Charles, Marquis Cornwallis -- The Eve Of The Constitutional Ceonvention, May 17-20, 1787 / George Mason -- Last-minute Dissenters At The Constitutional Convention, September 15-17, 1787 / James Madison -- Jefferson At The White House / Margaret Bayard Smith -- The Bathtub Dictator Sells Louisiana, 1803 / Lucien Bonaparte -- Aaron Burr Kills Alexander Hamilton, July 11, 1804 / Nathaniel Pendleton And William P. Van Ness -- Lewis And Clark Head To The Pacific, August 12 And November 7, 1805 / Meriwether Lewis And William Clark. Cont.): First Voyage Of The Clermont, August 7, 1807 / H. Freeland -- Tecumseh, July-october 1811 / William Henry Harrison -- Dolley Madison Saves Washington's Portrait, August 23-24,1814 / Dolley Madison -- Uninvited Guests Find Dinner At The White House, August 24, 1814 / George Robert Gleig -- Public Amusements In New Orleans, 1818 / Henry Bradshaw Fearon -- Calhoun And The Missouri Compromise, February 24, 1820 / John Quincy Adams -- Peale's Museum, 1826 / Anne Royall -- Lunch In New York City, May 21, 1827 / Captain Basil Hall -- Early Cincinnati, February 10, 1828 / Frances Milton Trollope -- One Tough Bear, April 7, 1828 / Jedediah Smith -- Early Texas, April 27, 1828 / José María Sánchez -- Jackson's Rowdy Inauguration, March 11, 1829 / Margaret Bayard Smith. Cont.): A Slave Ship In The South Atlantic, May 24, 1829 / Robert Walsh -- America's First Steam Engine Races A Horse, September 18, 1830 / John Hazelhurst Bonval Latrobe -- Exploring Florida, January 1832 / John James Audubon -- Life With A Slave Breaker, 1833 / Frederick Douglass -- Spanish California, 1835 / Richard Henry Dana -- Fall Of The Alamo, March 6, 1836 / Vicente Filisola -- Money In New York City And Manners In Niagara Falls, 1837 / Frederick Marryat -- The Trail Of Tears Begins, August 28, 1838 / William Shorey Coodey -- Barnum Discovers Tom Thumb, November 1842 / Phineas Taylor Barnum -- The First Telegraph Message, March 4, 1843, And May 24, 1844 / Samuel F.b. Morse -- Waiting For The End Of The World, October 22, 1844 / Anonymous. Cont.): Thoreau At Walden Pond, September 1845 / Joseph Hosmer -- The Oregon Trail, 1846 / Francis Parkman -- The Mormon Exodus, May 8-10, 1846 / Anonymous Daily Missouri Republican Reporter -- The Donner Party, November 20, 1846-march 1, 1847 / Patrick Breen -- Gold Strike At Sutter's Mill, January 24, 1848 / James W. Marshall -- The Seneca Falls Convention, July 19-20, 1848 / Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, And Susan B. Anthony -- Man Overboard! October 13, 1849 / Herman Melville -- Hawthorne And The Scarlet Letter, 1849 / James T. Fields -- Poe's Macabre Dream, 1849 / John Sartain -- On The Underground Railroad, About 1850 / Levi Coffin -- Sojourner Truth At A Woman's Rights Convention, 1851 / Marius Robinson. Cont.): Commodore Perry Opens Japan, July 12, 1853 / Official Report Of The Expedition -- Chief Seattle Speaks, 1854 / Henry A. Smith -- Lincoln And Doublas Debate / June-july 1858 / Gustave Koerner -- First Overland Mail Reaches The West Coast, October 9-10, 1858 / Waterman L. Ormsby -- John Brown's Raid, October 16, 1859 / John E. Daingerfield -- The Pony Express, 1861 / Mark Twain -- Lincoln At The White House, March 27-28 And October 9, 1861 / William Howard Russell -- Fort Sumter Is Attacked, April 8-15, 1861 / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- War News Reaches The North, April 14-16, 1861 / Mary Ashton Livermore -- Lincoln Tears The Flag, June 29, 1861 / Julia Taft Bayne -- First Battle Of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 / William Howard Russell. Cont.): The Confederate Congress, 1862-1863 / Reuben Davis -- Battle Of The Ironclads: The Merrimack Versus The Monitor, March 9, 1862 / Captain G.j. Van Brunt, U.s.n., And Lieutenant James H. Rochelle, C.s.n. -- Lincoln Proclaims Emancipation, September 22, 1862 / Salmon P. Chase -- Adventures Of A Blockade Runner, 1862 / Captain John Wilkinson, C.s.n. -- Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863 / General Alfred Pleasonton And Anonymous New York World Reporter -- Lincoln Delivers The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 / John Russell Young -- Andersonville Prison, July 3-september 7, 1864 / John L. Ransom -- Sherman Burns Atlanta, November 14-16, 1864 / F.y. Hedley, David Conyngham, And Major George Ward Nichols -- A Missing Brother At Christmas, December 26, 1864 / Walt Whitman. Cont.): Lee Surrenders To Grant, April 9, 1865 / Horace Porter -- Lincoln Is Shot / April 14, 1865 / Major Henry R. Rathbone -- Death Of Lincoln, April 14-15, 1865 / Gideon Welles -- Freedom, April 26, 1865 / Booker T. Washington -- The Reconstruction, 1865 / Sidney Andrews -- Baseball Innovations, 1866-1876 / Albert Goodwill Spaulding -- Early Denver, June 19, 1866 / Bayard Taylor -- The Last Spike, March 10, 1869 / General Grenville M. Dodge -- Powell Enters The Grand Canyon, August 13-14, 1869 / John Wesley Powell -- New Money And Robber Barons, 1869-1873 / George Templeton Strong -- The Great Fire And Its Aftermath, October 8-11, 1871 / Joseph Edgar Chamberlain, Alexander Frear, Lambert Tree, And William A. Croffut. Cont.): A Ku Klux Klan Trial, November 1871 / Testimony Of Gadsden Steel -- United States V. Susan B. Anthony -- And Vice Versa, June 17-18, 1873 / Court Records -- The First Telephone Call, March 10, 1876 / Alexander Graham Bell -- Custer Is Killed At Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876 / Chief White Bull -- Aleuts, June 30-july 2, 1879 / Libby Beaman -- Electric Light, October 21, 1879 / Thomas Alva Edison -- Jesse James's Body, April 3, 1882 / Anonymous Western Associated Press Reporter -- Haymarket Riot, May 1, 1886 / Barton Simonson -- Frank Lloyd Wright Sees His First City, 1887 / Frank Lloyd Wright -- The Great Oklahoma Land Rush, April 22, 1889 / Hamilton S. Wicks -- The Johnstown Flood, June 2, 1889 / Anonymous Philadelphia Public Ledger Reporter. Cont.): The First Electrocution, August 6, 1890 / Anonymous New York World Reporter -- Massacre At Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890 / Black Elk -- The Invention Of Basketball, December 1891 / James Naismith -- The First Department Store, 1896 / George Steevens -- The Rough Riders Charge San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898 / Richard Harding Davis -- Carrie Nation, December 27, 1900 / Anonymous Topeka Daily Capital Reporter -- The Wright Brothers Fly, December 17, 1903 / Orville Wright -- Ellis Island, 1905 / Edward Steiner -- The Great Earthquake And Fire, April 18, 1906 / Jack London -- Building The Panama Canal, November 1906 / Theodore Roosevelt -- The Birth Of The Blues, 1911, W.c. Handy -- Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire, March 25, 1911 / Pauline Cuoio Pepe. Cont.): The Titanic Sinks, April 14-15, 1912 / Harold Bride -- Jim Thorpe, November 9, 1912 / Anonymous New York Times Reporter -- The First Assembly Line, April 1, 1913 / Henry Ford -- Sinking The Lusitania, May 17, 1915 / Kapitän-leutnant Walter Schwieger -- War In The Air, April 29, 1918 / Captain Eddie Rickenbacker -- The Americans Join The War In Europe, September 9-november 8, 1918 / Corporal Elmer Sherwood -- Babe Ruth, October 12, 1923 / Heywood Broun -- Rhapsody In Blue, January 1924 / George Gershwin -- Among The Believers, July 14, 1925 / H.l. Mencken -- First Rocket Flight, March 17, 1926 / Dr. Robert H. Goddard -- The Flapper, 1926 / Samuel Crowther -- Television Is Born, April 7, 1927 / Anonymous New York Times Reporter. Cont.): Lindbergh Crosses The Atlantic, May 21, 1927 / Edwin L. James -- Radio And Its Evils Arrive, October 24, 1927 / Franklin Pierce Adams -- Al Capone, Patriot, 1929 / Claud Cockburn -- Prohibition, 1929 / Paul Morand -- Raid Of An Abortion Clinic, April 15, 1929 / Margaret Sanger -- Crash, October 24, 1929 / Elliott V. Bell -- First View From The Empire State Building, May 1, 1931 / Anonymous New York Times Reporter -- In The Death House With The Scottsboro Boys, June 1932 / Langston Hughes -- General Douglas Macarthur Fires On Americans, July 29, 1932 / Lee Mccardell -- Depression Prices, 1933 / Paul Angle -- Roosevelt's New Deal, March 5, 1933-april 27, 1934 / Harold L. Ickes -- The Lindbergh Case Circus, January 1935 / Stanley Walker. Cont.): Gutzon Borglum Carves Mount Rushmore, September 21, 1936 / Ernie Pyle -- Hitting Bottom, Autumn 1936 / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The War Of The Worlds, October 30, 1938 / John Houseman -- A Movie Executive Pleads For A Few Famous Last Words, October 29, 1939 / David O. Selznick -- Charlie Bird Parker Makes The Scene, 1941 / Idrees Sulieman -- An Early Warning, January 7, 1941 / Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew -- Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 / Senator Daniel K. Inouye -- Pearl Harbor News Reaches Fdr, December 7, 1941 / Grace Tully -- Evacuation To Manzanar, April 26, 1942 / Yuri Tateishi -- A Codebreaker's Daring Trick, May 20, 1942 / Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton -- The Homefront, 1943 / Nell Giles. Cont.): A Walk To San Stefano, July 31, 1943 / Staff Sergeant Jack Foisie -- The Death Of Captain Waskow, January 10, 1944 / Ernie Pyle -- D-day, June 6, 1944 / Lieutenant Robert Edlin -- Go For Broke! October 29, 1944 / Stan Nakamoto -- Iwo Jima, February 1945 / Edgar L. Jones -- The Death Of Roosevelt, April 12-13, 1945 / Merriman Smith, Janet Flanner, And Mollie Panter-downes -- The United Nations, April 13-june 23, 1945 / Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg -- The Trinity Test, July 16, 1945 / Robert Krohn -- Dropping The Atom Bomb, August 6, 1945 / Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. -- Eniac, February 14, 1946 / T.b. Kennedy, Jr. -- Jackie Robinson In The Major Leagues, 1947-1955 / Roger Kahn. Cont.): Jonas Salk Hunts For A Polio Vaccine, June 16, 1950-february 23, 1954 / Anonymous Nurses At Municipal Hospital -- North Korea Challenges The United Nations, June 25, 1950 / Dean Acheson, President Harry Truman, And John Hickerson -- Firing Macarthur, April 6-9, 1951 / President Harry Truman -- A Neighborhood Vote, February 17, 1952 / Bernard Taper -- Mccarthy Meets His Match, April 23-june 17, 1954 / Official Records -- Elvis, May 1955 / Jean Yothers -- The Front Of The Bus, December 1, 1955 / Rosa Parks -- First Day Of School In Little Rock, September, 1957 / Relman Morin -- Space, May 5, 1961 / Alan Shepard, Jr. -- The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 16-27, 1962 / Minutes Of The Executive Committee; Nikita Khrushchev. Cont.): Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., August 28, 1963 / James Reston -- A Dissenter's View Of Dr. King's Speech, August 28, 1963 / Malcolm X -- The Feminine Mystique And The Women's Rights Movement, 1963 / Betty Friedan -- President Kennedy Is Assassinated, Novbember 22, 1963 / Merriman Smith -- The Beatles Arrive, February 7-9, 1964 / Tom Wolfe And William Whitworth -- The Vietnam War Begins, August 4-11, 1964 / Admiral James Stockdale -- Police Try To Halt The Selma March, March 21, 1965 / Sheyann Webb -- Story Pitch At A Hollywood Studio, 1967 / John Gregory Dunne -- The Long, Hot Summer, July 1967 / James Ingram -- The My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968 / Varnado Simpson -- Police Break Up A Student Protest, August 27, 1968 / Studs Terkel. Cont.): A Fortunate Son, October, 1968 / Lieutenant Lewis B. Puller, Jr. -- The Birth Of Modern Sports: Curt Flood Fights Baseball, October-december 1968 / Curt Flood -- Stonewall, July 3, 1969 / Howard Smith -- On The Moon, July 21, 1969 / Neil Armstrong -- Woodstock, August 15-18, 1969 / Richie Havens, Miriam Yasgur, And Myra Friedman -- Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970 / James Lovell And Jeffrey Kluger -- Kent State, May 4, 1970 / John Kifner -- Roe V. Wade, December 13, 1971, And October 13, 1972 / Court Records -- The Watergate Cover-up Begins, June 18, 1972 / H.r. Haldeman -- Fear And Loathing At The Super Bowl, January 1973 / Hunter S. Thompson -- The Double Life Of Patty Hearst, April 15, 1974 / Patricia Tania Hearst. Cont.): The Fall Of Saigon, April 10-30, 1975 / Stephen Klinkhammer -- Warhol's World, October 29, 1977-january 17, 1980 / Andy Warhol -- The Iranian Hostage Crisis: Week One, November 4-9, 1979 / Hamilton Jordan -- Ronald Reagan In The White House, 1980-1988 / Peggy Noonan -- Offerings: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982- / Cynthia Loose -- Living With Aids, 1985-1990 / Ryan White -- Space Shuttle Challenger, January 28, 1986 / William Harwood -- The Rodney King Verdict And Riots, April 29-may 1, 1992 / Staff Of The Los Angeles Times -- The Quilt, October 11, 1992 / Fern Shen And Michele Norris -- Getting Wired: E-mail From Bill, October 1993-january 1994 / John Seabrook. Edited By David Colbert. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
