Describes how the United States developed from the first contact between extremely different cultures to its role as a superpower and explores how a country based on diversity seeks the sometimes contradictory goals of freedom and equality.
A textbook for United States history from earliest Indian civilizations to the present, with maps, charts, activities, study questions, and review chapters.
Profiles the first thirty years of the life of Ida B. Wells, describing her aggressive fight against segregation and racism in the South, and her outspoken manner against the lynching of African-Americans.
Colorful historical incidents are reassessed in a demonstration of the way historians work; discusses such topics as the Salem witch trials, John Brown, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, the decision to drop the atom bomb, and Watergate.
