Contents -- Historian's Preface -- Bibliographer's Preface -- Spanish-American War (1898) -- Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902) -- Boxer Rebellion (1900) -- Panama Canal -- Assassination of President McKinley (1901) -- Wright Brothers Flight at Kitty Hawk (1903) -- Muckraking -- Conservation Movement during the Progressive Era -- Establishment of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) -- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911) -- Presidential Election of 1912 -- Women's Suffrage -- Progressive Reforms Enacted -- Woodrow Wilson and the Mexican Crisis (1913- 1917) -- The Armory Show (1913) -- Sinking of the Lusitania (1915) -- The United States and World War I (1917- 1918) -- Paris Peace Conference (1919) -- The Red Scare (1919-1920) -- Prohibition (1919-1933) -- Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921) -- Ford Model T -- Revival of the Ku Klux Klan -- First Radio Broadcasts -- Silent Movies -- Harlem Renaissance -- Scopes Trial (1925) -- Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.'s Transatlantic Flight (1927) -- Opposition to Immigration in the 1920s -- Jazz Age Culture -- Stock Market Crash of 1929 -- The Great Depression -- The Bonus Army (1932) -- The Presidential Election of 1932 -- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) (1933) -- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (1933) -- Growth of Organized Labor during the 1930s -- The Dust Bowl -- Establishment of Social Security (1935) -- Good Neighbor Policy -- Pre-Pearl Harbor Debate between Isolationists and Interventionists -- Pearl Harbor (1941) -- Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (1942- 1944) -- The Manhattan Project (1942-1945) -- Women and World War II -- Minorities and World War II -- Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) (1944) -- Yalta Conference (1945) -- Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945) -- United Nations Established (1945) -- War Crime Trials (1945-1948).

Cold War Begins -- Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball (1947) -- Marshall Plan (1947) -- NATO Established (1949) -- Alger Hiss Trials (1949-1950) -- Trial of the Rosenbergs (1950-1951) -- McCarthyism (1950-1954) -- Korean War (1950-1953) -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) -- Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) -- Elvis Presley and Rock 'n' Roll Music -- Polio Vaccine Discovered -- Little Rock School Crisis (1957) -- Sputnik (1957) -- Golden Age of Television -- U-2 Plane Shot Down (1959) -- Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) -- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) -- John F. Kennedy Assassinated (1963) -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement -- The 1960s Counterculture -- Black Power Movement -- Vietnam War -- Great Society Programs (1965-1968) -- Student Radicalism during the 1960s -- National Organization for Women (NOW) Founded (1966) -- American Indian Movement (AIM) Founded (1968) -- Tet Offensive (1968) -- My Lai Massacre (1968) -- Apollo 11 and the Moon Landing (1969) -- Earth Day Observed (1970) -- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Created (1970) -- Kent State Killings (1970) -- Watergate Scandal (1972-1974) -- Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements (SALT I and SALT II) (1972, 1979) -- President Nixon Visits China (1972) -- Equal Rights Amendment (1972) -- Roe v. Wade (1973) -- Panama Canal Treaties (1978) -- Camp David Accords (1978) -- Iran Seizes American Hostages (1979) -- First Woman Appointed to the Supreme Court (1981) -- Invasion of Grenada (1983) -- Iran-Contra Affair (1985-1987) -- Invasion of Panama (1989) -- The Breakup of the Soviet Union -- Persian Gulf War (1991) -- Clarence Thomas Appointed to the Supreme Court (1991) -- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (1993) -- Index.