16 books in series

Pivotal Moments in American History

Pivotal Moments in American History is a 15-book series first released in 2001 with contributions by John Ferling, David L. Preston, and 14 others.

Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

ByJohn Ferling

2004 • 6 Readers • 288 pages • 4

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

ByDavid L. Preston

2015 • 1 Reader • 480 pages

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

ByJames T. Patterson

2001 • 1 Reader • 319 pages

Crossroads of Freedom

Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam

ByJames M. McPherson,Nelson Runger

2002

Crossroads of Freedom

Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam: The Battle that Changed the Course of the Civil War

ByJames M. McPherson

2002 • 4 Readers • 5

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

BySamuel G. Freedman

2023 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

Rainbow's End

Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929

ByMaury Klein

2001 • 1 Reader

Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement

BySally G. McMillen

2008 • 3 Readers • 320 pages

Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience

ByEmerson W. Baker

2014 • 2 Readers • 398 pages

3 Readers • 5

2008 • 1 Reader • 240 pages

The Birth of Modern Politics

ByLynn Hudson Parsons

2009 • 3 Readers • 272 pages

The Flight of the Century

The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation

ByThomas Kessner

2010 • 1 Reader

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

ByColin G. Calloway

2005 • 241 pages

Unconditional

ByMarc S. Gallicchio

2020 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

Washington's crossing

ByDavid Hackett Fischer

2003 • 17 Readers • 823 pages • 4

Pivotal Moments in American History

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