Preface1.) In the Beginning: The Early Arrivals and the Young Colonies2.) Freedom: What a Revolutionary Idea!3.) Welcome to the New Nation4.) The War of 1812.and 1813.and 1814.and 1815 5.

) 1815-1865: Growing Pains6.) There's Nothing Civil About War7.) Abraham Lincoln: Days of Dreams and Nightmares8.) Before There was Law and Order, There was the Wild West!9.) The Inventors: Lots of New Stuff10.) 1900-1916: Don't Get Stuck in the Bath Tub!11.) World War I: From Pancho to Paris12.) Between the Wars 1918-1941: Other than the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and Hitler.

Things were Pretty Good13.) World War II: That German Guy Sure has a Funny Mustache!14.) 1945-1949: The Forties are Finished and Dewey Lost Again15.) The Fifties: In the Event of a Nuclear Attack, Get under a Table!16.) It's the Sixties: Far Out, Man17.) 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 Twitter21.) Never Follow a LegendEpilogue: The Last WordAcknowledgmentsBibliography.