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Program 1: New World Encounters
Image as History: Surviving Conquest

Minge, Ward Alan. Acoma: Pueblo in the Sky. Albuquergue: University of New Mexico Press, 1976.

Stubbs, Stanley A. Bird's Eye View of the Pueblos. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950.

White, Leslie A. The Acoma Indians: People of the Sky City. Glorieta, New Mexico: The Rio Grande Press, Inc, 1973.

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Program 2: English Settlement
Interactive Timeline: Colonial Settlement

Boorstin, Daniel. The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York: Vintage Books, 1958.

Demos, John. The Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Rountree, Helen C. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

Vaughan, Alden T. American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.

Vaughan, Alden T. New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.

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Program 3: Growth and Empire
Image as History: Colonial Society

Fliegelman, Jay. Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Lovell, Magaretta. "Reading Eighteenth-Century American Family Portraits," Winterthur Portfolio 22, pp. 243-264. 1987.

Miller, Lillian and David Ward, eds. New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale. Pittsburgh: Published for the Smithsonian Institution by the University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.

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Program 4: The Coming of Independence
Image as History: Stamp Act Cartoons

Cresswell, Donald. The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints. Washington: [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975.

Jones, Michael Wynn. Cartoon History of the American Revolution. New York: Putnam, 1975.

Morgan, Edmund and Helen. The Stamp Act Crisis; Prologue to Revolution. New York: Collier Books, 1963, c1962.

Richardson, E.P. "Stamp Act Cartoons in the Colonies," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 96, pp. 275-297. July, 1972.

Young, Alfred and Terry Fife. We the People: Voices and Images of the New Nation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.

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Program 5: A New System of Government
You Decide: Jefferson or Hamilton?

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Kennedy, Roger G. Burr, Hamilton and Jefferson: A Study in Character. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Morris, Richard B. Alexander Hamilton and the Founding of the Nation. New York: Dial, 1957.

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. New York: W. W. Norton, 1972.

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Program 6: Westward Expansion
Image as History: Re-Mapping History

Hebard, Grace Raymond. Sacajawea. Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1933.

Jackson, Donald. Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Moulton, Gary, ed. The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983-present.

Ronda, James P. Lewis and Clark among the Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

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Program 7: The Rise of Capitalism
Interactive Map: The Transportation Revolution

Dilts, James. The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore and Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Sellers, Charles G. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Sheriff, Carol. The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997.

Taylor, George R. The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1861. New York: Rinehart, 1951.

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Program 8: The Reform Impulse
Interactive Timeline: The Events of 1831

Greenberg, Kenneth ed. The Confessions of Nat Turner. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Marszalek, John. The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House. New York: Free Press, 1997.

Masur, Louis. 1831: Year of Eclipse. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.

Pierson, George Wilson. Tocqueville and Beaumont in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1938.

Remini, Robert. Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

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Program 9: Slavery
Image as History: Slave Culture

Blassingame, John. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Boime, Albert. The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.

Carbone, Teresa and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting in America. New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art in association with International Publications, 1999.

Levine, Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

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Program 10: The Coming of the Civil War
Interactive Map: Slave and Free Soil

Dodd, Donald and Wynell Dodd. Historical Statistics of the South, 1790-1970. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1973.

Litwack,Leon. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States: 1790-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Melish, Joanne. Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Potter, David. The Impending Crisis: 1848-1861. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

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Program 11: The Civil War
Image as History: Civil War Photography

Frassanito, William. Gettysburg: A Journey in Time. New York: Scribner, 1975.

Sandweiss, Martha ed. Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum; New York: H.N. Abrams, 1991.

Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989.

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Program 12: Reconstruction
Image as History: Reconstruction Cartoons

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Perennial Library, 1989.

Keller, Morton. The Art and Politics of Thomas Nast. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Litwack, Leon. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. New York: Knopf; distributed by Random House, 1979.

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Program 13: America at the Centennial
Interactive Timeline: Timeline to 1876

Haworth, Paul L. The Hayes-Tilden Disputed Election of 1876. [Originally published in 1906] New York: Russell and Russell, 1979.

Kirkland, Edward C. Industry Comes of Age: Business, Labor, and Public Policy, 1860-1897. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.

McFeely, William S. Grant: A Biography. New York: Norton, 1981.

Panzeri, Peter F. Little Big Horn 1876: Custer's Last Stand. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing Co., 1999.

Rydell, Robert W. All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Viola, Herman J. Little Big Horn Remembered: The Untold Indian Story of Custer's Last Stand. New York: Times Books, 1999.

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Program 14: Industrial Supremacy
Interactive Timeline: Inventions, 1868-1898

Bruce, Robert V. Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Gordon, Sarah H. Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1996.

Hughes, Thomas P. American Genesis: A Century of Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. New York: Viking, 1989.

Millard, A. J. Edison and the Business of Innovation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Miller, Donald L. City of the Century, The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996; paperback, 1997.

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Program 15: The New City
Image as History: The White City

Daniel, Pete and Raymond Smock. A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston 1889-1910. New York: Harmony Books, 1974.

Gilbert, James. Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Miller, Donald L. City of the Century, The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996; paperback, 1997.

Wilson, William H. The City Beautiful Movement. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

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Program 16: The West
Interactive Map: Mapping Conquest

Beck, Warren A., and Ynez D. Haase. Historical Atlas of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

Hine, Robert V., and John Mack Faragher. The American West: A New Interpretive History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Ridge, Martin. Atlas of American Frontiers. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1993.

Wexler, Alan. Atlas of Westward Expansion. New York: Facts on File, 1995.

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Program 17: Capital and Labor
Interactive Map: The Elections of 1896 and 1900

Ginger, Ray. Eugene V. Debs: A Biography. New York: Collier Books, 1962.

Glad, Paul W. McKinley, Bryan and the People. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1964

Glad, Paul W. The Trumpet Soundeth: William Jennings Bryan and His Democracy, 1896-1912. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1960.

Gould, Lewis L. The Presidency of William McKinley. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1981.

May, Ernest R. American Imperialism: A Speculative Essay. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

Miller, Donald L. (with Richard E. Sharpless). The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985; paperback, 1985.

Sproat, John G. The Best Men: Liberal Reformers in the Gilded Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

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Program 18: TR and Wilson
You Decide: Wilderness Preservation?

Cronon, William, ed. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.

Hays, Samuel P. Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.

Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.

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Program 19: A Vital Progressivism
You Decide: Washington or Du Bois?

Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. [Originally published in 1903, several editions in print].

Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Lewis, David Levering. W. E. B. Du Bois, Biography of Race, 1868-1919. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993.

Smock, Raymond W., ed. Booker T. Washington in Perspective: Essays of Louis R. Harlan. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988.

Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. [Originally published in 1901, several editions in print].

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Program 20: The Twenties
You Decide: The Roaring Twenties?

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's. [Originally published in 1931]. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

Behr, Edward. Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996.

Dumenil, Lynn. The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920's. New York: Hill & Wang, 1995.

Goldberg, David J. Discontented America: The United States in the 1920's. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Scharff, Virginia. Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. New York: The Free Press, 1991.

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Program 21: FDR and the Depression
Image as History: Depression Era Photography

Curtis, James. Mind's Eye/Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

Daniel, Pete, et al. Official Images: New Deal Photography. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.

Fleischhauer, Carl and Beverly Brannan, eds. Documenting America, 1935-1943. Berkeley: University of California Press in association with the Library of Congress, 1988.

Guimond, James. American Photography and the American Dream. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Miller, Donald L. New American Radicalism: Non-Marxian Radicalism in the 1930s. New York: Kennikat Press, 1979.

Stott, William. Documentary Expression and Thirties America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

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Program 22: World War II
You Decide: Japanese American Internment?

Bosworth, Allan R. America's Concentration Camps. New York: Norton, 1967.

Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. New York: Bantam Books, 1974.

Tateishi, John. And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984; paperback, 1999.

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Program 23: The Fifties
You Decide: The Atom Bomb?

Alperovitz, Gar. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Random House, 1999.

Gerson, Joseph. With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion, and Moral Imagination. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1995.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. [Originally published in 1946]. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Miller, Donald L. Lewis Mumford: A Life. New York & London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989; paperback, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.

Miller, Donald L. The Lewis Mumford Reader, New York: Pantheon Books, 1986; paperback, University of Georgia Press, 1992.

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

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Program 24: The Sixties
You Decide: The Women's Movement?

Hartmann, Susan. From Margin to Mainstream. New York: McGraw Hill, 1989.

Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. New York: Viking Penguin, 2000.

Williams, Joan. Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict, and What to Do About It. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Program 25: Contemporary History
Interactive Map: The New West

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987.

All feature map information is based upon:
Riebsame, William, ed. The Atlas of the New West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

Scharff, Virginia. "Honey, I Shrunk the West," Pacific Historical Review, August, 1998.

White, Richard. "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own:" A New History of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

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Program 26: The Redemptive Imagination
Interactive Timeline: Timeline 1876-1999

Special Bibliography of Timelines and Chronologies.
Those desiring to further explore timelines will find much useful information and guidance in the following works:

Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women's History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Women's History. New York: Touchstone Books, 1994.

Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (3rd Rev. Ed.). New York: Touchstone Books, 1991.

Heinemann, Sue. Timelines of American Women's History. New York: Roundtable Press/A Perigee Book, 1996.

Trager, James, ed. The People's Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.

Urdang, Laurence, ed. The Timetables of American History. New York: Touchstone Books, 1983.

Wetterau, Bruce. The New York Public Library Book of Chronologies. New York: Prentice Hall Press/Stonesong Press Book, 1990.

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