social aspects

Describes American attitudes toward immigration from 1860 through 1925, and examines public opinion about minority groups when they came to America.

Examines the lives and efforts of seven historical figures in the establishment of the United States, and focuses on George Washington, Robert Morris, Henry Laurens, Timothy Bigelow, Joseph Plumb Martin, Thomas Young, and Mercy Otis Warren.

Chronicles the events surrounding the American Revolution from the standpoints of its everyday participants, including women, Native Americans, African-Americans, loyalists, and pacifists.

Describes the dramatic events and standard practices that shaped the Civil War era, with information on the social and economic realities of everyday life, military life in the army and navy, common dialects and diction, Civil War weaponry, and common foods, clothing styles, and pastimes.

In this history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended.

Recounts the case of twenty-six men who attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a region called Devil's Highway and were betrayed by a smuggler.

Draws on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of Northern soldiers to show how mid-nineteenth-century attitudes about home and family helped them adapt to military life during the Civil War.