Volo, James M.

A comprehensive study of the history, culture, geography, and social and family life of Native Americans including the structure of their societies, ceremonies and rituals, warfare, and intertribal trade and conflicts.

Describes the period before the Civil War, from 1820 through 1860, and presents the youth in America and popular culture, including fashion, food, literature, art, and music, and such people as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty, and Frederick Law Olmstead.

Explores the role family played in society and typical family life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, describing various aspects of family life, including maintaining the household, entertainment, holidays, customs, ceremonies, parenting, and education.