A Patriot's History of the United States:
>From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Authors: Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen
Publisher: Penguin Group
December 2004

DDC Comments: A Patriot's History of the United States exposes the biases of those who have re-constructed history and indoctrinated our high school and college students. The history books listed below this book are examples of how our education establishment has betrayed our history and our children for decades. The books were primarily written by a prominent distortionist of our history, UCLA historian, Gary B. Nash and his cohorts in the tradition of the chief revisionist of U.S. history, Howard Zinn...

FROM THE PUBLISHER

For the past three decades, those writing history have allowed their biases to distort the way America's past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in American history while utterly downplaying the greatness of America's patriots and the achievements of "dead white men."

As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin.

A Patriot's History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking volume, America's discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful.

This honest review of American history explains, for example: That the same founders who owned slaves instituted numerous ways to ensure slavery could not survive. That while many historians have misinterpreted "separation of church and state" to mean freedom from worship, our founders clearly understood it meant freedom to worship. That time and time again, America's leaders have willingly shared power with those who had none, whether they were citizens of territories, former slaves, or disenfranchised women. That even when the United States uses her military power for dubious reasons, the ultimate result is political liberation and a higher standard of living than before.

Few, if any other, nations can lay claim to such a legacy. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America's true and proud history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction xi
Chapter 1 The City on the Hill, 1492-1707 1
Chapter 2 Colonial Adolescence, 1707-63 38
Chapter 3 Colonies No More, 1763-83 58
Chapter 4 A Nation of Law, 1776-89 88
Chapter 5 Small Republic, Big Shoulders, 1789-1815 127
Chapter 6 The First Era of Big Central Government, 1815-36 179
Chapter 7 Red Foxes and Bear Flags, 1836-48 219
Chapter 8 The House Dividing, 1848-60 249
Chapter 9 The Crisis of the Union, 1860-65 294
Chapter 10 Ideals and Realities of Reconstruction, 1865-76 353
Chapter 11 Lighting Out for the Territories, 1861-90 392
Chapter 12 Sinews of Democracy, 1876-96 422
Chapter 13 "Building Best, Building Greatly," 1896-1912 457
Chapter 14 War, Wilson, and Internationalism, 1912-20 492
Chapter 15 The Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash, 1920-32 533
Chapter 16 Enlarging the Public Sector, 1932-40 558
The New Deal: Immediate Goals, Unintended Results 568
Chapter 17 Democracy's Finest Hour, 1941-45 589
Chapter 18 America's "Happy Days," 1946-59 631
Chapter 19 The Age of Upheaval, 1960-74 667
Chapter 20 Retreat and Resurrection, 1974-88 720
Chapter 21 The Moral Crossroads, 1989-2000 763
Chapter 22 America, World Leader, 2000 and Beyond 803
Conclusion 824
Notes 827
Selected Reading 897
Index 899

History on Trial
Authors: Gary B. Nash, Dunn, Crabtree, Charlotte Crabtree, Ross E. Dunn
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
March 2000

The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society
Textbook: Single Volume Edition
Authors: Gary B. Nash, Allan M. Winkler, John R. Howe, Allen F. Davis, Peter J. Frederick
Publisher: Longman
6th Edition
March 2003