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A companion book to The History Channel® special series of ten one-hour documentaries

10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America pinpoints pivotal days that transformedour nation. For the series and the book, The History Channel challenged a panel ofleading historians, including author Steven M. Gillon, to come up with some lesswell-known but historically significant events that triggered change in , the days they chose tell a story about the great democratic ideals uponwhich our country was built.

You won’t find July 4, 1776, for instance, or theattack on Fort Sumter that ignited the Civil War, or the day Neil Armstrong set footon the moon. But January 25, 1787, is here. On that day, the ragtag men of Shays’Rebellion attacked the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, and set thenew nation on the path to a strong central government. January 24, 1848, is alsoon the list. That’s when a carpenter named John Marshall spotted a few glitteringflakes of gold in a California riverbed. The discovery profoundly altered the Americandream. Here, too, is the day that noted pacifist Albert Einstein unwittingly advocatedthe creation of the Manhattan Project, thus setting in motion a terrible chain ofevents.

Re-creating each event with vivid immediacy, accessibility, and historicalaccuracy, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America comes together as a history ofour country, from the first colonists’ contact with Native Americans to the is a snapshot of our country as we were, are, and will be.