Traces the causes, events, and aftermath of the Mexican War, including quotes from contemporary sources and discussions of the social and political climate of the country at the time.
Presents a history of pacifism and those who have protested against war, concentrating on war resistance in the U.S., from colonial days up to the current movement against nuclear arms.
A short history of the Jews in America from 1654 and their first permanent community of twenty-three persons in New Amsterdam to the present, stressing the difficulties they have continually faced as an ethnic minority.