Pivotal Moments in American History

Series Editors

David Hackett Fischer

James M. McPherson

David Greenberg

James T. Patterson

Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy

Maury Klein

Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929

James McPherson

Crossroads of Freedom: The Battle of Antietam

Glenn C. Altschuler

All Shook Up: How Rock ’n’ Roll Changed America

David Hackett Fischer

Washington’s Crossing

John Ferling

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

Joel H. Silbey

Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War

Raymond Arsenault

Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Colin G. Calloway

The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America

Richard Labunski

James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights

Sally G. McMillen

Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement

Howard Jones

The Bay of Pigs

Lynn Parsons

The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828

Elliott West

The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story

Glenn C. Altschuler & Stuart M. Blumin

The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans

Richard Archer

As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution

Thomas Kessner

The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation

Craig L. Symonds

The Battle of Midway

Richard Moe

Roosevelt’s Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War

Emerson W. Baker

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience

Louis P. Masur

Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion

David L. Preston

Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution

Michael A. Cohen

Maelstrom: The Election of 1968 and American Politics