Savages and salty men: the Dutch-Lenape encounter, 1609-1664
Trojan horses: New Amsterdam and the English threat, 1653-1674
Key and bulwark: New York in the English empire, 1664-1774
Demons of discord: the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
Hot shot and heavy metal: France, England, and war at sea, 1793-1815
The front door: the Civil War, 1861-1865
Huns within our gates: World War I, 1914-1918
Tempting target: global conflict and World War II, 1933-1945
Red alert: the Cold War years, 1946-1982
Declarations of war: urban terrorism, 1908-2001.