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ISBN 10:   0816066035

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Author: Ballard Campbell 

Presented chronologically and written in narrative form by leading historians, each article of a reference title allows readers a firsthand look at people living through catastrophic events that either transformed society, demarcated one era from another, or generated vast social change.
 

Table of contents: 

  1. Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage (1492)

  2. Decimation of Native Americans by European Diseases (1492)

  3. Lost Colony of Roanoke (1590)

  4. Starving Time at Jamestown (1609-1610)

  5. First Winter at Plymouth (1620)

  6. Massacre at Jamestown (1622)

  7. King Philip’s War (1675)

  8. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

  9. Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)

  10. Deerfield Massacre (1704)

  11. Smallpox Epidemic (1721)

  12. Stone Rebellion (1739)

  13. New York City Fires and Slave “Conspiracy” (1741)

  14. Millerites and the End of the World (1844)

  15. Irish Famine and Immigration (1845)

  16. Great South Carolina Hurricane (1752)

  17. Exile of the Acadians (1755)

  18. New England Earthquake (1755)

  19. Stamp Act Crisis (1765)

  20. Boston Massacre (1770)

  21. North Carolina Regulator Movement (1771)

  22. Coercive Acts (1774)

  23. Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)

  24. Smallpox Epidemic in the American Revolution (1775)

  25. Deprivation at Valley Forge (1777)

  26. The “Dark Day” Forest Fires (1780)

  27. Economic Crisis (1785)

  28. Shays’s Rebellion (1786)

  29. Yellow Fever Epidemic (1793)

  30. Presidential Election Crisis (1800-1801)

  31. Impressment Crisis (1807)

  32. Financial Panic and Depression (1819)

  33. Denmark Vesey Slave Plot (1822)

  34. Presidential Election Deadlock (1824-1825)

  35. Nat Turner Slave Rebellion (1831)

  36. Cholera Epidemic (1832)

  37. Nullification Crisis (1833)

  38. Ursuline Convent Riot and Fire (1834)

  39. Battle of the Alamo (1836)

  40. Financial Panic and Depression (1837)

  41. Explosion of the Moselle (1838)

  42. Trail of Tears (1838)

  43. Dorr Rebellion (1842)

  44. Philadelphia Riots (1844)

  45. Millerites and the End of the World (repeat?)

  46. Irish Famine and Immigration (repeat?)

  47. The Donner Party (1846)

  48. Compromise of 1850

  49. Sinking of the San Francisco (1853)

  50. Wreck of the Arctic (1854)

  51. Financial Panic and Depression (1857)

  52. Wreck of the Lady Elgin (1860)

  53. Secession Crisis (1860)

  54. Battle of Bull Run (1861)

  55. New York City Draft Riots (1863)

  56. Sand Creek Massacre (1864)

  57. Assassination of President Lincoln (1865)

  58. Explosion of the Sultana (1865)

  59. Impeachment of President Johnson (1868)

  60. Avondale Mine Disaster (1869)

  61. Revere Railroad Accident (1871)

  62. Peshtigo Fire (1871)

  63. Great Chicago Fire (1871)

  64. Credit Mobilier Scandal (1872)

  65. Great Epizootic (1872)

  66. Great Boston Fire (1872)

  67. Financial Panic and Depression (1873)

  68. Locust Invasions across the Great Plains (1873)

  69. Mill River Dam Collapse (1874)

  70. Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)

  71. Ashtabula Bridge Collapse (1876)

  72. Contested Presidential Election (1876-1877)

  73. Great Railroad Strike (1877)

  74. Demise of the American Elm Tree

  75. Yellow Fever Epidemic (1878)

  76. Assassination of President Garfield (1881)

  77. Haymarket Square Incident (1886)

  78. Blizzard of ’88 (1888)

  79. Johnstown Flood (1889)

  80. American Red Cross

  81. Lynching Tragedy (1892)

  82. Homestead Strike (1892)

  83. Financial Panic and Depression (1893)

  84. Exterminating the Buffalo (1893)

  85. Pullman Strike (1894)

  86. Explosion of the USS Maine (1898)

  87. Sinking of the Portland (1898)

  88. Automobile Fatalities (1899)

  89. Outbreak of Bubonic Plague (1900)

  90. Public Health Service

  91. Galveston Hurricane (1900)

  92. Assassination of President McKinley (1901)

  93. Iroquois Theater Fire (1903)

  94. General Slocum Disaster (1904)

  95. American Chestnut Tree Blight (1904)

  96. Insurance Industry Scandal (1905)

  97. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1906)

  98. Typhoid Mary (1906)

  99. Financial Panic and Depression (1907)

  100. Springfield Race Riot (1908)

  101. Cherry Mine Fire (1909)

  102. Wellington Avalanche and Railway Disaster (1910)

  103. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)

  104. “Bread and Roses” Strike (1912)

  105. Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

  106. Ludlow Massacre (1914)

  107. Sinking of the Lusitania (1915)

  108. Capsizing of the Eastland (1915)

  109. Great Molasses Spill (1919)

  110. Bombing of Attorney General’s House (1919)

  111. Chicago Race Riot (1919)

  112. Black Sox Baseball Scandal (1919)

  113. Ponzi Scheme (1920)

  114. Wall Street Bombing (1920)

  115. Miami Hurricane (1926)

  116. Mississippi River Flood (1927)

  117. St. Francis Dam Collapse (1928)

  118. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1930)

  119. Scottsboro Case (1931)

  120. Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster (1931)

  121. Lindbergh Kidnapping (1932)

  122. The Great Depression (1933)

  123. Dust Bowl (1935)

  124. Florida Hurricane (1935)

  125. New London School Explosion (1937)

  126. Hindenburg Disaster (1937)

  127. Memorial Day Massacre (1937)

  128. Disappearance of Amelia Earhart (1937)

  129. Elixir Sulfanilamide Tragedy (1937)

  130. Food and Drug Administration

  131. Great New England Hurricane (1938)

  132. War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast (1938)

  133. Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)

  134. Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)

  135. Cocoanut Grove Fire (1942)

  136. Los Angeles Smog Cloud (1943)

  137. Hartford Circus Fire (1944)

  138. Airplane Crash into the Empire State Building (1945)

  139. Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan (1945)

  140. Grandcamp Explosion (1947)

  141. Donora Smog Tragedy (1948)

  142. Retreat from the Yalu (1950)

  143. Polio Epidemic (1952)

  144. Worcester Tornado (1953)

  145. Grand Canyon Airplane Crash (1956)

  146. Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis (1957)

  147. Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

  148. Thalidomide Tragedy (1962)

  149. Silent Spring and Environmental Degradation

  150. Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

  151. Assassination of President Kennedy (1963)

  152. Cigarettes and Lung Cancer (1964)

  153. Freedom Summer Civil Rights Murders (1964)

  154. Selma Voting Rights Demonstration (1965)

  155. Watts Riot (1965)

  156. Urban Riots (1967)

  157. Tet Offensive (1968)

  158. My Lai Massacre (1968)

  159. Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)

  160. Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy (1968)

  161. Democratic Convention and Riot (1968)

  162. Santa Barbara Oil Spill (1969)

  163. Depletion of New England Fisheries (1969)

  164. Rapid City Flood (1972)

  165. National Weather Service

  166. Watergate Scandal (1972)

  167. Oil Embargo (1973)

  168. Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak (1976)

  169. New York City Power Failure (1977)

  170. Blizzard of ’78 (1978)

  171. Love Canal Crisis (1978)

  172. Environmental Protection Agency

  173. Accident at Three Mile Island (1979)

  174. Crash of American Airlines Flight 191 (1979)

  175. Iran Hostage Crisis (1979)

  176. Mariel Boatlift Exodus (1980)

  177. Eruption of Mount St. Helens (1980)

  178. Deadly Heat Wave (1980)

  179. AIDS Epidemic (1981)

  180. Bombing of U.S. Marine Barracks (1983)

  181. Chemical Explosion in Bhopal (1984)

  182. Shuttle Challenger Explosion (1986)

  183. Yellowstone Fires (1988)

  184. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (1989)

  185. Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989)

  186. Los Angeles Riot (1992)

  187. Hurricane Andrew (1992)

  188. Silicone Breast Implant Crisis (1992)

  189. World Trade Center Bombing (1993)

  190. Superstorm (1993)

  191. Raid on Branch Davidian Compound (1993)

  192. Mississippi River Flood (1993)

  193. Oklahoma City Bombing (1995)

  194. Federal Government Shutdown (1995)

  195. Explosion of TWA Flight 800 (1996)

  196. Columbine School Shooting (1999)

  197. Presidential Election Stalemate (2000)

  198. 9/11 Terrorist Attack (2001)

  199. Enron Scandal (2001)

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