You won't find July 4, 1776, the attack on Fort Sumter or the Apollo 11 moon landing. Instead, there is January 25, 1787, when the ragtag men of Shays' Rebellion attacked the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, and set the new nation on the path to a strong central government. And January 24, 1848, when John Marshall spotted a few glittering flakes of gold in a California riverbed, profoundly altering the American dream. Here, too, is Albert Einstein's unwitting call to create the Manhattan Project, thus setting in motion a chain of events which deeply dismayed the famous pacifism.
Re-creating each event with vivid immediacy, accessibility, and historical accuracy, Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America comes together as a history of our country from the first contact with Native Americans to the 1960s. It is a snapshot of our country as we were, are, and will be.
Includes:
Massacre At Mystic
Shay's Rebellion - America's First Civil War
The Homestead Strike
Antietnam
Einstein's Letters
Gold Rush
Murder At The Fair - The Assassination Of President McKinley
Freedom Summer
Scopes - The Battle Over America's Soul
When America Was Rocked