Pour chacune de ces dates :

- un exposé principal en anglais,

- un éclairage complémentaire en français,

- des rubriques d'accompagnement ( keywords, figures, people, places ),

- des cartes et des illustrations, un index et des tableaux récapitulatifs.

Sommaire The Mayflower: December 16, 1620 / The Stamp Act: March 22, 1765 / The

Declaration of Independance: July 4, 1776 / The Constitution of the United States:

September 17, 1787 / The Louisiana Purchase: May 2, 1803 / Andrew Jackson President:

March 4, 1829 / The Gold Rush: January 24, 1848 / Abraham Lincoln Assassinated: April 14,

1865 / The Pacific Railroad: May 10, 1869 / The Sherman Antitrust Act: July 2, 1890 /

Theodore Roosevelt President: September 15, 1901 / The Great Crash: October 24, 1929 /

Hiroshima: August 6, 1945 / The Cuban Missile Crisis: October 22-28, 1962 / Richard

Nixon Resigns: August 8, 1974 / Victory in the Gulf: February 27, 1991 / A day of infamy:

September 11, 2001 / A Black President in the white House: January 20, 2009