Prologue : Iowa waltz

Part I : American war

Veterans Day : 11 November 2007

The fight for the citadel : soldiering and the Founding Fathers

The Drop Zone Cafe, San Antonio, Texas, 3 March 2008

The trials of the Roman

Taking sides

Father and son

The quartermaster general 1861-1864

John Rodgers Meigs, the Shenandoah Valley, summer and fall 1864

Montgomery Meigs and Louisa Rodgers Meigs, October 1864-December 1865

Washington D.C., February 2008

Hamilton resurrexit

American war : Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, the Maginot Line near Metz, 10 December 1944

Part II : American fervor

Atlantic City, August 1964

Saved

Raven, Virginia, 2008

Providence

"Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free

"

National sin

Jarena Lee

The sovereignty of the voice

Easter Sunday, 2008, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta

Great white hopes?

Ruleville, Mississippi, 31 August 1962

Part III : What is an American?

Twilight, Downing Street, June 2008

Citizen Heartbreak : France, August 1794

The German threat

The Chicken Club, south Texas, July 2008

The immigrant problem in Texas

The German threat - again

The importance of Fred Bee

Grace under pressure

Jefferson's Koran

Part IV : American plenty

Running on empty?

Strawberry fields, 1775

White Path, 1801-1823

1893

The church of irrigation

Ghost house

Roll up that lawn

Windmills

Epilogue: The impotent angel?