"The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments."--BOOK JACKET.

Includes maps of: Distribution of the African-American Population of New York City in 1934; Boston in the 1770s; California by Eusebio Francisco Kino, 1705; Western Lands Occupied by the Cherokee Indians, 1884; United States by Population Density, 1941; 1590 English Map of Roanoke Island and Albemarle Sound in Present-day North Carolina; Geological Map of Massachusetts, 1832; Battle of Gettysburg, JUL 1863; Map Prepared for German Immigrants to North America; Properties of the United States Steel Corporation; Township Map, 1815; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Nevada Silver Mines in the 1870s; New York City's Elevated Railroads, 1881; Oregon Trail, 1846; Treaty Map, 1775-1782; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad; Two Versions of the Boston Massacre by Paul Revere; Slave Population in the South, 1860; John Smith's 1614 Map of New England; Tennessee Valley Authority Dams, 1940; Automobile Map, 1907; Bird's Eye View of Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1868; Military Map of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863; Washington, D.C., as Envisioned in 1792; Hot Springs and Geysers in Yellowstone National Park.