Booknotes: stories from American history

Revolution and Founding 1776-1815

Alfred F. Young on a Shoemaker and the Boston Tea Party

Pauline Maier on Declaring Independence

Jack N. Rakove on Creating the Constitution

Robert Scigliano on The Federalist Papers

Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Roger G. Kennedy on the American and French Revolutions

Bernard A. Weisberger on the Contested Election of 1800

Arnold A. Rogow on the Hamilton - Burr Duel

Michael H. Cottman on the Slave Ship Henrietta Marie

Young Nation 1815-1850

Joyce Appleby on the First Generation of Americans

Andrew Burstein on Celebrating Fifty Years on Independence

Harvey C. Mansfield on Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Slavery and the Civil War 1850-1865

Stephen B. Oates on the Buildup to the Civil War

James M. McPherson on Volunteer Soldiers

Drew Gilpin Faust on Women of the Slaveholding South

Joseph E. Stevens on the Events of 1863

James M. Perry on Civil War Correspondents

Brooks D. Simpson on Ulysses S. Grant's Military Career

Douglas L. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Lerone Bennett Jr., and Differing Perspectives on Abraham Lincoln

H. W. Crocker III, Tom Wheeler, and the Leadership of Robert E. Lee

William J. Cooper Jr. on Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy

Rebuilding American and the Gilded Age 1865-1901

Witold Rybczynski on Frederick Law Olmsted and the Building of Central Park

David Haward Bain on the First Transcontinental Railroad

H. Paul Jeffers on Grover Cleveland's Political Career

H. W. Brands on the Events of the 1890s

Ben Procter on William Randolph Hearst and the Rise of Yellow Journalism

Jean Strouse on J. P. Morgan, National Banker

Progressive Era and Reaction 1901-1929

Linda O. McMurry on the Crusades of Ida B. Wells

Dorothy Herrmann on the Celebrity of Helen Keller

Gina Kolata on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Emily Bernard on Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

Edward J. Larson on the Scopes "Monkey" Trial

Robert A. Slayton on Al Smith and the 1928 Election

Larry Tye on Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations

A. Scott Berg on Charles Lindbergh's Reluctant Public Life

Peter Collier on the Roosevelt Dynasty

Depression and War 1929-1945

David M. Kennedy on the Great Depression and World War II

Allen Weinstein on the Early Days of Soviet Espionage

Elizabeth M. Norman on the Nurses Captured on Bataan

Amity Shlaes on the Creation of the Withholding Tax

James Bradley on Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

Tom Brokaw on the World War II Generation

Nicholas Lemann on the Great Black Migration

Sally Bedell Smith, David Brinkley, Peter Jennings, and Early Network News

Early Cold War 1945-1957

David Fromkin on Five Men Who Shaped the Post-World War II World

Christopher Matthews on the Unlikely Kennedy - Nixon Friendship

Jean Edward Smith on Lucius D. Clay and Postwar Berlin

Zachary Karabell on Truman Defeats Dewey

Arthur Herman on the Rise and Fall of Joseph McCarthy

Norman Podhoretz on the New York Intelligentsia

Social Transformation 1957-1975

Roy Reed on Orval Faubus and the Desegregation of Central High School

Robert Dallek on Lyndon Johnson and the 1960 Election

Jay Parini on Robert Frost and the Kennedy Inauguration

Donald Kagan on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Andrew Young on Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Diane McWhorter on the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing

Ben Bradlee on the Kennedy Years

Arlen Specter on the Warren Commission

Jeff Shesol on the RFK-LBJ Feud

Anthony Lewis on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

Jon Margolis on Stories from 1964

Tinsley E. Yarbrough on John Marshall Harlan and the Warren Court

Leonard Garment on Getting to Know Richard M. Nixon

Charles V. Hamilton on the Life and Career of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Elizabeth Taylor on Richard J. Daley and Chicago's Political Machine

Peter R. Kann and Frances FitzGerald on Reporting from Vietnam

Stuart I. Rochester on American POWs in Vietnam

Culture Wars 1975-2000

Irving Kristol, Nina J. Easton, and the Rise of the Neoconservatives

Kiron K. Skinner on the Forgotten Radio Scripts of Ronald Reagan

John A. Farrell on the Political Lore of Tip O'Neill

Shelby Steele, Cornel West, Thomas Sowell, Randall Robinson: A Symposium on Race

Don Oberdorfer on the Reagan - Gorbachev Summits

Marlin Fitzwater on Reagan, Bush, and the Press

Bob Woodward on Planning the Persian Gulf War

John Podhoretz on the Last Days of the First Bush White House

Richard E. Cohen on Dan Rostenkowski's Fall from Power

Tim Russert on a Half-Century of Meet the Press

Bonnie Angelo on Modern Presidents' Mothers. Complete List of C-SPAN Booknotes (1989-2001).