Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Bill Bryson, Bruce McCall (illustrator)Chapters: The Mayflower and Before; Becoming Americans; A "Democratic Phrenzy": America in the Age of Revolutions; Making a Nation; By the Dawn's Early Light: Forging a National Identity; We're in the Money: The Age of Invention; Names; "Manifest Destiny": Taming the West; The Melting-pot: Immigration in America; When the Going Was Good: Travel in America; What's Cooking?: Eating in America; Domestic Matters; The Hard Sell: Advertising in America; The Movies; The Pursuit of Pleasure: Sport and Play; Of Bombs and Bunkum: Politics and War; Sex and Other Distractions; The Road from Kitty Hawk; Welcome to the Space Age: The 1950s and Beyond; American English Today.
Note: Unlike many uploaded copies, this one is actually a very readable, good-quality scan, and has mostly-accurate OCR, so it can be searched and copy-pasted from. There are many printings of this book from various publishers (mostly 1994-1999); the text all seems to be the same as the original 1994 edition. The few illustrations are rather over-compressed (but many other copies are missing them anyway).