List Books » A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Authors: Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen
ISBN-13: 9781595230010, ISBN-10: 1595230017
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Larry Schweikart is a history professor at the University of Dayton.
Michael Allen is a professor of history and American studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma.
Since the liberal revolution of the '60s and '70s, American history books have been biased toward the negative. They overemphasize America's racism, sexism, and bigotry while downplaying the greatness of her patriots. As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington, more on the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII than D-day or Iwo Jima, more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin.
This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America's true and proud history. The authors reexamine America's discovery, founding, and development with an appreciation for the principles of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that have made this nation so uniquely successful.
A welcome, refreshing, and solid contribution to relearning what we have forgotten and remembering why this nation is good, and worth defending.
Acknowledgments | vii | |
Introduction | xi | |
Chapter 1 | The City on the Hill, 1492-1707 | 1 |
Chapter 2 | Colonial Adolescence, 1707-63 | 38 |
Chapter 3 | Colonies No More, 1763-83 | 58 |
Chapter 4 | A Nation of Law, 1776-89 | 88 |
Chapter 5 | Small Republic, Big Shoulders, 1789-1815 | 127 |
Chapter 6 | The First Era of Big Central Government, 1815-36 | 179 |
Chapter 7 | Red Foxes and Bear Flags, 1836-48 | 219 |
Chapter 8 | The House Dividing, 1848-60 | 249 |
Chapter 9 | The Crisis of the Union, 1860-65 | 294 |
Chapter 10 | Ideals and Realities of Reconstruction, 1865-76 | 353 |
Chapter 11 | Lighting Out for the Territories, 1861-90 | 392 |
Chapter 12 | Sinews of Democracy, 1876-96 | 422 |
Chapter 13 | "Building Best, Building Greatly," 1896-1912 | 457 |
Chapter 14 | War, Wilson, and Internationalism, 1912-20 | 492 |
Chapter 15 | The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash, 1920-32 | 533 |
Chapter 16 | Enlarging the Public Sector, 1932-40 | 558 |
The New Deal: Immediate Goals, Unintended Results | 568 | |
Chapter 17 | Democracy's Finest Hour, 1941-45 | 589 |
Chapter 18 | America's "Happy Days," 1946-59 | 631 |
Chapter 19 | The Age of Upheaval, 1960-74 | 667 |
Chapter 20 | Retreat and Resurrection, 1974-88 | 720 |
Chapter 21 | The Moral Crossroads, 1989-2000 | 763 |
Chapter 22 | America, World Leader, 2000 and Beyond | 803 |
Conclusion | 824 | |
Notes | 827 | |
Selected Reading | 897 | |
Index | 899 |