The Bedford series in history and culture

Presents Edward Bellamy's utopian novel, originally published in 1888, which follows the adventures of Julian West after he falls asleep in 1887 and awakens to find Boston in the year 2000 a near-perfect society, and includes an introduction, a chronology of Bellamy's life, and other references.

Presents a biography of Cesar Chavez, a Chicano farm worker-labor organizer, with short essays written by people involved in his life.

Contains documents that trace the history of the arrest, trials, and eventual acquittal of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an artillery officer wrongly accused of high treason in 1894 by French authorities who believed him to be an easy target because he was a Jew.

Presents thirty primary source documents preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, including Japan's Plan A and Plan B negotiations, America's proposed "modus vivendi,"and the Hull note and Japan's reaction, and ten analytical essays on the attack's international context.

Historical documents trace the origins of McCarthyism in the United States and its impact on the country's economy, culture, laws, and attitudes.

Provides an analysis of the Plessy v. Ferguson case in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of separate but equal accommodations on intrastate railroads, setting the stage for a system of legal segregation in the U.S., and includes a collection of primary source documents related to the case.

Describes the life of those living in the tenements of New York in the nineteenth century and focuses on alcoholism, Jewish labor, city slums, working women, crime, and children, and includes a short biography of Jacob Riis.