To America: personal reflections of an historian

The Founding Fathers --

The Battle of New Orleans --

The Indian country --

The transcontinental railroad --

Grant and reconstruction --

Theodore Roosevelt and the beginning of the American century --

Democracy, Eisenhower, and the war in Europe --

The war in the Pacific --

The legacy of World War II --

Vietnam --

Writing in and about America --

War stories: Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus Bridge --

Writing about Nixon --

Writing about men in action, 1992-2001 --

The National D-Day Museum --

American racism --

Women's rights and immigration --

The United States and nation building --

Nothing like it in the world.