Introduction / by Robert Cowley
Might the Mayflower not have sailed? / Theodore K. Rabb
William Pitt the Elder and the avoidance of the American Revolution / Caleb Carr
What the fog wrought : the Revolution's Dunkirk, August 29, 1776 / David McCullough
"His accidency" John Tyler / Tom Wicker
Lew Wallace and the ghosts of the Shunpike / Victor Davis Hanson
If the lost order hadn't been lost : Robert E. Lee humbles the Union, 1862 / James M. McPherson
The Northwest conspiracy / Thomas Fleming
Beyond the wildest dreams of John Wilkes Booth / Jay Winik
The revolution of 1877 / Cecelia Holland
The whale against the wolf : the Anglo-American War of 1896 / Andrew Roberts
No Pearl Harbor : FDR delays the war / John Lukacs
If Eisenhower had gone to Berlin / Antony Beevor
Joe McCarthy's secret life / Ted Morgan
If the U-2 hadn't flown / George Feifer
The Cuban missile crisis : second holocaust / Robert L. O'Connell
JFK lives / Robert Dallek
What if Watergate were still just an upscale address? / Lawrence Malkin and John F. Stacks.
