Starting with the first Viking explorations and continuing to the present day, this book covers all the major incidents and key players - from the Boston Tea Party to 9/11, and Lewis and Clark to Martin Luther King Jr. Contents include: - The Pre-Columbrian Americas - Uncovering ...Starting with the first Viking explorations and continuing to the present day, this book covers all the major incidents and key players - from the Boston Tea Party to 9/11, and Lewis and Clark to Martin Luther King Jr. Contents include: - The Pre-Columbrian Americas - Uncovering the existence of the New World - English, French, and dutch influences - Foundations of Freedom - Revolutions reigns - Shaping a new nation and government - Early American struggles (including the War of 1812) - A country unraveling (slavery, States' rights, Abraham Lincoln) - The Civil War - Mending America (Reconstruction, the Wild West) - The age of industry, invention and discovery - The World War I era - The Great Depression - The World War II era - The Fifties - The turbulent Sixties - Events of the 1970s - New Conservatism - The end of the millennium (Terrorism strikes, millennium madness, the 1996 and 2000 elections) - The Twenty-First Century (Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, United Nations and the Iraqi War, Headline news 2000-2003).