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Witness to America, an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today, Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors]

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [591]-597) and index

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Witness to America

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Stephen Ambrose & Douglas Brinkley, [editors]

an illustrated documentary history of the United States from the Revolution to today

Accompanying CD includes actural clips and dramatizations of many of the entries: Mohawks spill tea in Boston Harbor -- Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence -- The American Army suffers at Valley Forge -- Tecumseh pledges support ot the British -- "Old America is moving westward" -- Settlers recall growing up in the early Republic -- Mark Twain on the Pony Express -- Three accounts of pioneer life -- The Reverence Walsh inspects a slave ship -- Abraham Lincoln: O Captain, my Captain -- Writing "The battle hymn of the Republic" -- The Civil War ends with a surrender -- Robert Louis Stevenson travels across the plains -- Henry Ford constructs a gasoline buggy -- Jacob Riis discovers how the other half lives -- Theodore Roosevelt takes charge of the Navy -- The world wars -- The Marines cross a river under fire on Guadalcanal -- An American palne ushers in the atomic age -- The GIs and modern America -- Edward R. Murrow on the meaning of television -- John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address -- Rosa Parks gets arrested in Montgomery -- The Democratic convention: August 1968 -- Neil Armstrong reminisces about his moon walk -- The harrowing evacuation of Saigon -- Bill Gates ont he birth of the personal computer -- Michael Kinsley on the impeachment of Bill Clinton -- Toward the new millennium

United States from the Revolution to today