Days of Destiny. Crossroads in American History. America’s Greatest Historians Examine Thirty-One Uncelebrated Days That Changed the Course of History.

First American Edition. Contents: Introduction, by James M. McPherson & Alan Brinkley; June 17, 1675. King Philip's Quarell, by James Axtell; October 23, 1740. Whitefield Awakens America, by John Demos; May 24, 1775. Silas Deane's Diary, by Jack N. Rakove; October 19, 1781. The Battle of Yorktown, by Robert Middlekauff; July 16, 1787. The Day the Constitution Was Saved, by Gordon S. Wood; June 20, 1790. Mr. Jefferson's Dinner Party, by Joseph J. Ellis; March 4, 1801. The Second American Revolution, by Joyce Appleby; Mid-February 1824. The Way West, by William H. Goetzmann; January 1, 1831. The Liberator, by Ira Berlin; July 20, 1848. The Seneca Falls Convention, by Christine Stansell; March 6, 1857. The Day of Dred Scott, by Sean Wilentz; September 13, 1862. The Lost Orders, by James M. McPherson; June 13, 1866. Equality Before the Law, by Eric Foner; October 5, 1877. 'I Will Fight No More Forever', by Elliott West; February 24, 1908. Affirming the Sexual Division of Labor, by Alice Kessler-Harris; August 14, 1908. The End of Accommodation, by David Levering Lewis; January 1, 1913. The Routine Arrest That Launched a Revolution, by Geoffrey C. Ward; June 20, 1917. The Great Demand, by Nancy F. Cott; July 20, 1925. The Scops Trail: Darrow v. Bryan, by Alan Brinkley; May 22, 1933. Harry Hopkins Brings Relief, by Linda Gordon; April 2, 1943. Testing America, by Nicholas Lemann; July 25, 1945. 'The Most Terrible Bomb in the History of the World', by John W. Dower; September 19, 1946. The President Learns about Civil Rights, by William E. Leuchtenburg; May 3, 1948. Hollywood at the Crossroads, by Ann Douglas; January 17, 1961. A Farewell to Arms, by Douglas Brinkley; June 21, 1961. The Decision to Publish Kuhn, by David A. Hollinger; July 28, 1965. End of an Era, Start of a War, by David Kaiser; January 14, 1967. The Human Be-In, by David Farber; July 12, 1967. Days of Rage: The Life and Death of Newark, by Kenneth T. Jackson; November 22, 1971. Sally Reed Demands Equal Treatment, by Linda K. Kerber; June 14, 1973. The Battle over Biotechnology, by Daniel J. Kevles; About the Contributors; Index; Photo Credits.