Preface 1.) In the Beginning: The Early Arrivals and the Young Colonies 2.) Freedom: What a Revolutionary Idea! 3.) Welcome to the New Nation 4.) The War of 1812.and 1813.and 1814.and 1815 5.

) 1815-1865: Growing Pains 6.) There's Nothing Civil About War 7.) Abraham Lincoln: Days of Dreams and Nightmares 8.) Before There was Law and Order, There was the Wild West! 9.) The Inventors: Lots of New Stuff 10.) 1900-1916: Don't Get Stuck in the Bath Tub! 11.) World War I: From Pancho to Paris 12.) Between the Wars 1918-1941: Other than the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and Hitler.

Things were Pretty Good 13.) World War II: That German Guy Sure has a Funny Mustache! 14.) 1945-1949: The Forties are Finished and Dewey Lost Again 15.) The Fifties: In the Event of a Nuclear Attack, Get under a Table! 16.) It's the Sixties: Far Out, Man 17.) The Seventies: There were Crooks in the White House and Everyone had Disco Fever! 18.) The Eighties: The President Looks just like this Guy that I Saw the Other Night in an Old Movie! 19.) The Nineties: Denials, Trials and the .

com Market! 20.) The 21st Century: Terrorism and Twitter 21.) Never Follow a Legend Epilogue: The Last Word Acknowledgments Bibliography.