The fight for independence and the devastating Civil War. The
Baby Boom and the birth of the computer age. Gold rushes and oil
gushes. Through engaging text and lavish images, We Americans
follows the day-to-day lives of the people and events that shaped
our nation, with a focus on the country''s unprecedented mix of
immigrants and how they transformed this nation. We Americans
features 14 essays by best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writers
and 300 illustrations and rarely published arc
目錄:
Foreword John M Fahey,Jr.
President and CE0,National Geographic Society
Introduction spelIcel’R.Crew
Director,NationalMuseum ofAmerican History
The New Land Edmund S.Morgan
The New Nation Edu,ards Park
Forging the Links william H Goetzmann
The Great West llTlliam H Goetzmann
The Man Wh0… Ceoffrey''C Ward
Brother Again st Brother Dal,id Her’bert Donald
BFYOND THE BATTl.EFIEl.D:CAMERAS CA rFCH“THE TERRIBLE
REALITY"
Into the New C enturv David Mindell
Boom and Bust Leslie Allen
BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD:“WE”RE COMING OVER’—TRAINING FOR WAR
BEYoND rHE BATTl.EFIE!.D:WOMEN ENLI ST IN A W.AR O F''woRK
Gone to the Movi es Richard Schickel
America the Beaut,iful}IHlliam Leasl Heat-wonk
In Everybody’S Living Room John Leonard
Blowin’in the Wind Charles Kaiser
BEYOND THE BATTLEIELD:THE WALL:IN TOUGHH wITH MEMORY,
Clicking Toward Y2K Howard Rhein''gold
We Americans 2000 Isabel lli''lkerson
AMER TCAN TTI STORY:A TlME LINE
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