18 books in series

Pivotal Moments in American History

Pivotal Moments in American History is a 18-book series with 18 primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Maury Klein, James T. Patterson, James M. McPherson, Nelson Runger, Glenn C. Altschuler, David Hackett Fischer, John Ferling, Colin G. Calloway, Richard Labunski, Sally G. McMillen, Howard Jones, Lynn Hudson Parsons, Thomas Kessner, Craig L. Symonds, Emerson W. Baker, David L. Preston, Marc S. Gallicchio, and Samuel G. Freedman.

Washington's crossing

Pivotal Moments in American History

2003 • 17 Readers • 823 pages • 4

Unconditional

Pivotal Moments in American History

2020 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

The Birth of Modern Politics

2009 • 3 Readers • 272 pages

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

2004 • 6 Readers • 288 pages • 4

Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience

2014 • 2 Readers • 398 pages

Cover 7

2008 • 3 Readers • 320 pages

Cover 6

2002

Cover 1

2002 • 4 Readers • 5

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

Pivotal Moments in American History

2005 • 241 pages

Cover 0

2010 • 1 Reader

Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights

2023 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

The Battle of Midway

2011 • 7 Readers • 465 pages • 4.7

The Bay of Pigs

2008 • 1 Reader • 240 pages

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

2015 • 1 Reader • 480 pages

Cover 6

2001 • 1 Reader

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

Pivotal Moments in American History

2001 • 1 Reader • 319 pages

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

Pivotal Moments in American History

2003 • 241 pages

James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights

2006 • 1 Reader • 352 pages