Author

Peter Wallenstein

Publisher

Pocahontas Press

Release Date

Feb. 2026

Summary

What were they thinking? And what happened next? Come on a brisk trek through US history, from past to present, from 1860 to 2025. IN SEARCH OF AMERICA: A NEW HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1860-2025 introduces many dozens of individuals and the things they did to change the course of history in their communities, across the US, even around the world

Scenes and people include D-Day at Normandy. A San Francisco sit-in in by a wheelchair brigade. Harriet Tubman and a military incursion in Civil War South Carolina. Andrew Carnegie, "from rags to riches." Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Going to school on the GI Bill. Coal, timber, and Appalachia. The first Earth Day.

A. Philip Randolph and the "greatest march that never happened." Grape pickers in California, Freedom Riders in Mississippi. Mr. Wong and birthright citizenship. Rosie the Riveter, Tuskegee Airmen, and the Code Talkers. Grandma got her Social Security. Harry Truman and the A-bomb, Harry Truman and civil rights.