Combined Volume Cover: Grand opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. © San Francisco Chronicle/Corbis
Volume 1 Cover: Laying of the cornerstone for the Chicago Water Tower, March 25 1867 (b/w photo), American Photographer, (19th century) / © Chicago History Museum, USA / Bridgeman Images
Volume 2 Cover: Suffragettes Nell Richardson and Alice S. Burke driving a car at a rally in New York in 1915. Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images
Chapter 1: Photo by John Bigelow Taylor
Chapter 2: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY
Chapter 3: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK / The Bridgeman Art Library
Chapter 4: AP Photo / Sotheby’s
Chapter 5: Norfolk Museums Service
Chapter 6: Courtesy Preservation Virginia
Chapter 7: Armed Forces History Division, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Chapter 8: Courtesy of Independence National Historical Park
Chapter 9: Private Collection / Photo © Christie’s Images / The Bridgeman Art Library
Chapter 10: Kahn Fine Antiques / photo courtesy of Antiques and Fine Arts
Chapter 11: Willard House and Clock Museum
Chapter 12: Wolffy / Alamy
Chapter 13: Smithsonian Institution Collections, National Museum of American History, Behring Center
Chapter 14: © Chicago History Museum, USA / The Bridgeman Art Library
Chapter 15: Photo courtesy Allen Katz Americana, Woodbridge, CT
Chapter 16: © Elemental Studios / Alamy
Chapter 17: Private Collection, photograph America Hurrah Archive, NYC
Chapter 18: ©David J. & Janice L. Frent Collection / CORBIS
Chapter 19: © Museum of the City of New York, USA / The Bridgeman Art Library
Chapter 20: Nebraska State Historical Society
Chapter 21: ©David J. & Janice L. Frent Collection / CORBIS
Chapter 22: Collection of Colonel Stuart S. Corning Jr./Picture Research Consultants & Archives
Chapter 23: Division of Work & Industry, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Chapter 24: ©David J. & Janice L. Frent Collection / CORBIS
Chapter 25: Stephen Douglas World War II Envelopes, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Chapter 26: Collection of Charles H. Christensen
Chapter 27: Bill Philpot / Alamy
Chapter 28: Collection of Mark Hooper
Chapter 29: Doug Steley B / Alamy
Chapter 30: Division of Political History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Chapter 31: Shutterstock Images LLC