American disasters: 201 calamities that shook the nation/ Ballard C. Campbell

By: Camphell, Ballard CMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Checkmark, 2008Description: xviii, 461 p. 28 cmISBN: 9780816077359Subject(s): Disasters -- United States -- History | Disasters -- Social aspects -- United States | Crises -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 363.341
Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Contributors 1492 Christopher Columbus's First Voyage 1492 Decimation of Native Americans by European Diseases 1590 Lost Colony of Roanoke 1609-1610 Starving Time at Jamestown 1620 First Winter at Plymouth 1622 Massacre at Jamestown 1675 King Philip's War 1676 Bacon's Rebellion 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials 1704 Deerfield Massacre 1721 Smallpox Epidemic 1739 Stono Rebellion 1741 New York City Fires and Slave "Conspiracy" 1752 Great South Carolina Hurricane 1755 Exile of the Acadians 1755 New England Earthquake 1765 Stamp Act Crisis 1770 Boston Massacre 1771 North Carolina Regulator Movement 1774 Coercive Acts 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775 Smallpox Epidemic in the American Revolution 1777 Deprivation at Valley Forge 1780 The "Dark Day" Forest Fires 1785 Economic Crisis 1786 Shays's Rebellion 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic 1800-1801 Presidential Election Crisis 1807 Impressment Crisis 1811 New Madrid Earthquakes 1814 Burning of Washington, D.C. 1814 Hartford Convention 1816 The Year without a Summer 1819 Financial Panic and Depression 1822 Denmark Vesey Slave Plot 1824-1825 Presidential Election Deadlock 1831 Nat Turner Slave Rebellion 1832 Cholera Epidemic 1833 Nullification Crisis 1834 Ursuline Convent Riot and Fire 1836 Battle of the Alamo 1837 Financial Panic and Depression 1838 Explosion of the Moselle 1838 Trail of Tears 1842 Dorr Rebellion 1844 Philadelphia Riots 1844 ■ Millerites and the End of the World 1845 Irish Famine and Immigration 1846 The Donner Party 1850 Compromise of 1850 1853 Sinking of the San Francisco 1854 Wreck of the Arctic 1857 Financial Panic and Depression 1859 John Brown's Raid 1860 Wreck of the Lady Elgin 1860 Secession Crisis 1861 Battle of Bull Run 1863 New York City Di aft Riots 1864 Sand Creek Massacre 1865 Assassination of President Lincoln 1865 Explosion of the Sultana 1868 Impeachment of President Johnson 1869 Avondale Mine Disaster 1871 Revere Railroad Accident 1871 Peshtigo Fire 1871 Great Chicago Fire 1872 Credit Mobilier Scandal 1872 Great Epizootic 1872 Great Boston Fire 1873 Financial Panic and Depression 1873 Locust Invasions across the Great Plains 1874 Mill River Dam Collapse 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 Ashtabula Bridge Collapse 1876-1877 Contested Presidential Election 1877 Great Railroad Strike 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic 1881 Assassination of President Garfield 1886 Haymarket Square Incident 1888 Blizzard of '88 1889 Johnstown Flood AMERICAN RED CROSS 1892 Lynching Tragedy 1892 Homestead Strike 1893 Financial Panic and Depression 1893 Exterminating the Buffalo 1894 Pullman Strike 1898 Explosion of the USS Maine 1898 Sinking of the Portland 1899 Automobile Fatalities 1900 Outbreak of Bubonic Plague PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 1900 Galveston Hurricane 1901 Assassination of President McKinley 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire 1904 General Slocum Disaster 1904 American Chestnut Tree Blight 1905 Insurance Industry Scandal 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire 1906 Typhoid Mary 1907 Financial Panic and Depression f908 Springfield Race Riot 1909 Cherry Mine Fire 1910 Wellington Avalanche and Railway Disaster 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1912 "Bread and Roses" Strike 1912 Sinking of the Titanic SOS 1914 Ludlow Massacre 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania 1915 Capsizing of the Eastland 1918 Influenza Pandemic 1919 1919 1919 1919 1920 1920 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1931 1932 1933 1935 1935 1937 1937 1937 1937 1937 1938 1938 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1945 1947 1948 1950 1952 1953 1956 1957 1961 1962 1962 Great Molasses Spill Bombing of Attorney General's House Chicago Race Riot Black Sox Baseball Scandal Ponzi Scheme Wall Street Bombing Miami Hurricane Mississippi River Flood St. Francis Dam Collapse St. Valentine's Day Massacre Demise of the American Elm Tree Scottsboro Case Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster Lindbergh Kidnapping The Great Depression Dust Bowl Florida Hurricane New London School Explosion Hindenburg Disaster Memorial Day Massacre Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Elixir Sulfanilamide Tragedy FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION Great New England Hurricane War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast Panic Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Attack on Pearl Harbor Cocoanut Grove Fire Los Angeles Smog Cloud Hartford Circus Fire Airplane Crash into the Empire State Building Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan Grandcamp Explosion Donora Smog Tragedy Retreat from the ^ alu Polio Epidemic CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIDN Worcester Tornailo Grand Canyon A i rplane Crash Little Rock Schod Desegregation Crisis Bay of Pigs Invasion Thalidomide Tra edy Silent Spring and ' mvironmental Degradation ibk'.. 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Assassination of President Kenned) 1964 Cigarettes and Lung Cancer 1964 Freedom Summer Civil Rights Murders 1965 Selma Voting Rights Demonstratior 1965 Watts Riot 1967 Urban Riots 1968 Tet Offensive 1968 My Lai Massacre 1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968 Democratic Convention and Riot 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill 1969 Depletion of New England Fisheries 1972 Rapid City Flood NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 1972 Watergate Scandal 1973 Oil Embargo 1976 Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak 1977 New York City Power Failure 1978 Blizzard of '78 1978 Love Canal Crisis ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 1979 Accident at Three Mile Island 1979 Crash of American Airlines Flight 191 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis 1980 Mariel Boatlift Exodus 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens 1980 Deadly Heat Wave 1981 AIDS Epidemic 1983 Bombing of U.S. Marine Barracks 1984 Chemical Explosion in Bhopal 1986 Shuttle Challenger Explosion 1988 Yellowstone Fires 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake 1992 Los Angeles Riot 1992 Hurricane Andrew 1992 Silicone Breast Implant Crisis 1993 World Trade Center Bombing 1993 Superstorm 1993 Raid on Branch Davidian Compound 1993 Mississippi River Flood 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing 1995 Federal Government Shutdown 1996 Explosion of TWA Flight 800 1999 Columbine School Shooting 2000 Presidential Election Stalemate 2001 9/11 Terrorist Attack 2001 Enron Scandal 2002 Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal 2003 Shuttle Columbia Disaster 2005 Hurricane Katrina FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY Appendix A Disaster Movies Appendix B "Worst of" Lists Bibliography Index
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Contributors 1492 Christopher Columbus's First
Voyage
1492 Decimation of Native Americans
by European Diseases 1590 Lost Colony of Roanoke
1609-1610 Starving Time at Jamestown
1620 First Winter at Plymouth
1622 Massacre at Jamestown
1675 King Philip's War
1676 Bacon's Rebellion
1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials
1704 Deerfield Massacre 1721 Smallpox Epidemic
1739 Stono Rebellion
1741 New York City Fires and Slave
"Conspiracy"
1752 Great South Carolina Hurricane
1755 Exile of the Acadians
1755 New England Earthquake
1765 Stamp Act Crisis
1770 Boston Massacre
1771 North Carolina Regulator
Movement
1774 Coercive Acts
1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775 Smallpox Epidemic in the
American Revolution 1777 Deprivation at Valley Forge 1780 The "Dark Day" Forest Fires
1785 Economic Crisis
1786 Shays's Rebellion 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic
1800-1801 Presidential Election Crisis
1807 Impressment Crisis
1811 New Madrid Earthquakes
1814 Burning of Washington, D.C.
1814 Hartford Convention
1816 The Year without a Summer 1819 Financial Panic and Depression 1822 Denmark Vesey Slave Plot
1824-1825 Presidential Election Deadlock
1831 Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
1832 Cholera Epidemic
1833 Nullification Crisis
1834 Ursuline Convent Riot and Fire
1836 Battle of the Alamo
1837 Financial Panic and Depression
1838 Explosion of the Moselle
1838 Trail of Tears
1842 Dorr Rebellion
1844 Philadelphia Riots 1844 ■ Millerites and the End of the World 1845 Irish Famine and Immigration
1846 The Donner Party
1850 Compromise of 1850
1853 Sinking of the San Francisco
1854 Wreck of the Arctic 1857 Financial Panic and Depression
1859 John Brown's Raid 1860 Wreck of the Lady Elgin
1860 Secession Crisis
1861 Battle of Bull Run 1863 New York City Di aft Riots
1864 Sand Creek Massacre
1865 Assassination of President Lincoln 1865 Explosion of the Sultana 1868 Impeachment of President Johnson
1869 Avondale Mine Disaster
1871 Revere Railroad Accident 1871 Peshtigo Fire 1871 Great Chicago Fire
1872 Credit Mobilier Scandal 1872 Great Epizootic
1872 Great Boston Fire 1873 Financial Panic and Depression
1873 Locust Invasions across the
Great Plains 1874 Mill River Dam Collapse 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn 1876 Ashtabula Bridge Collapse
1876-1877 Contested Presidential Election
1877 Great Railroad Strike
1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic
1881 Assassination of President Garfield
1886 Haymarket Square Incident
1888 Blizzard of '88
1889 Johnstown Flood
AMERICAN RED CROSS
1892 Lynching Tragedy
1892 Homestead Strike
1893 Financial Panic and Depression
1893 Exterminating the Buffalo
1894 Pullman Strike
1898 Explosion of the USS Maine
1898 Sinking of the Portland
1899 Automobile Fatalities 1900 Outbreak of Bubonic Plague
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
1900 Galveston Hurricane
1901 Assassination of President
McKinley 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire
1904 General Slocum Disaster 1904 American Chestnut Tree Blight
1905 Insurance Industry Scandal
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
1906 Typhoid Mary
1907 Financial Panic and Depression f908 Springfield Race Riot 1909 Cherry Mine Fire 1910 Wellington Avalanche and Railway
Disaster 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
1912 "Bread and Roses" Strike
1912 Sinking of the Titanic
SOS
1914 Ludlow Massacre
1915 Sinking of the Lusitania 1915 Capsizing of the Eastland 1918 Influenza Pandemic
1919
1919
1919
1919
1920
1920
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1931
1932
1933
1935
1935
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1938
1938
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1945
1947
1948
1950
1952
1953
1956
1957
1961
1962
1962
Great Molasses Spill Bombing of Attorney General's House
Chicago Race Riot
Black Sox Baseball Scandal
Ponzi Scheme
Wall Street Bombing
Miami Hurricane
Mississippi River Flood St. Francis Dam Collapse
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Demise of the American Elm Tree
Scottsboro Case
Hawk's Nest Tunnel Disaster
Lindbergh Kidnapping
The Great Depression
Dust Bowl
Florida Hurricane
New London School Explosion
Hindenburg Disaster
Memorial Day Massacre
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Elixir Sulfanilamide Tragedy
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
Great New England Hurricane
War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
Panic
Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows
Bridge
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Cocoanut Grove Fire
Los Angeles Smog Cloud
Hartford Circus Fire Airplane Crash into the Empire State Building Atomic Bombs Dropped on Japan Grandcamp Explosion Donora Smog Tragedy
Retreat from the ^ alu
Polio Epidemic
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND
PREVENTIDN
Worcester Tornailo
Grand Canyon A i rplane Crash
Little Rock Schod Desegregation
Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Thalidomide Tra edy
Silent Spring and ' mvironmental
Degradation
ibk'..
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 Assassination of President Kenned) 1964 Cigarettes and Lung Cancer 1964 Freedom Summer Civil Rights
Murders 1965 Selma Voting Rights Demonstratior
1965 Watts Riot
1967 Urban Riots
1968 Tet Offensive
1968 My Lai Massacre
1968 Assassination of Martin Luther
King, Jr. 1968 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
1968 Democratic Convention and Riot 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill 1969 Depletion of New England Fisheries 1972 Rapid City Flood
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 1972 Watergate Scandal
1973 Oil Embargo
1976 Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak 1977 New York City Power Failure
1978 Blizzard of '78
1978 Love Canal Crisis
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
1979 Accident at Three Mile Island
1979 Crash of American Airlines
Flight 191 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis
1980 Mariel Boatlift Exodus 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens 1980 Deadly Heat Wave
1981 AIDS Epidemic
1983 Bombing of U.S. Marine Barracks 1984 Chemical Explosion in Bhopal 1986 Shuttle Challenger Explosion
1988 Yellowstone Fires 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake 1992 Los Angeles Riot
1992 Hurricane Andrew 1992 Silicone Breast Implant Crisis 1993 World Trade Center Bombing 1993 Superstorm
1993 Raid on Branch Davidian
Compound 1993 Mississippi River Flood 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
1995 Federal Government Shutdown 1996 Explosion of TWA Flight 800 1999 Columbine School Shooting
2000 Presidential Election Stalemate
2001 9/11 Terrorist Attack
2001 Enron Scandal
2002 Catholic Church Sex Abuse
Scandal
2003 Shuttle Columbia Disaster
2005 Hurricane Katrina
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Appendix A Disaster Movies
Appendix B "Worst of" Lists
Bibliography
Index

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