Preliminary Material /Georg Schild -- Vorwort zur Reihe /Georg Schild -- Introduction /Georg Schild -- Colonial Failures, Imperial Triumphs, and the Loss of the American Colonies /Guy Chet -- The Wars of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and America's Rise to Power /Volker Depkat -- »A War Upon the First Principle of Popular Government« /Georg Schild -- The Experience of War and German-American Relations from the American Revolution to the Cold War /Michael Wala -- Wars of the Twentieth Century and America's Search for Order /Klaus Schwabe -- The Experience of the Revolutionary War, 1773-1782 /Hermann Wellenreuther -- American Wars and the Black Struggle for Freedom and Equality /Manfred Berg -- Wars for Empire /Frank Schumacher -- The American Experience of the Second World War /John Whiteclay Chambers II -- The American Memory of War /G. Kurt Piehler -- »Don't Ever Distort My History« /Christine Knauer -- The Cold War on American Television /Beth Bailey -- Mediating War /Horst Tonn -- Representations of War in American Art after 1945 /Annegret Jürgens-Kirchhoff -- Index /Georg Schild.