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Turning Points
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1. First Blood: The Pequot War.

2. Coloring the Colonies: Black and White in Early America.

3. Revolution in Print: The Zenger Case.

4. Brewing Tea in Boston Harbor.

5. The People Decide: Ratifying the Constitution.

6. The Louisiana Purchase.

7. The Trail of Tears: Exiling the Cherokee.

8. "Demon Rum": Battling the Bottle.

9. Manifest Destiny: War with Mexico.

10. Women in Public: The First Women's Movement.

11. Run, Fight, Evade, Resist: Slaves as "Troublesome Property".

12. Crisis in Black and White: Uncle Tom's Cabin.

13. The War over Slavery: Blue and Gray and Black.

About the Author

David Burner, a professor of history at SUNY at Stony Brook, received his doctorate at Columbia, where he studied under Richard Hofstadter. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Ford Fellow at Harvard. His early books are The Politics of Provincialism and Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. He is also the author of Making Peace with the Sixties (1996) and John F. Kennedy and a New Generation (2nd edition, 2003). He is currently writing a history of West Point.


Anthony Marcus teaches in the School of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He has published on globalization and culture change (Anthropology For A Small Planet, 1996) and American history, and his current writing focuses on Mexican migrants in the northeastern United States, poverty and public policy, the politics of the culture concept in development, and comparative mestizajes.

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