Eyewitness history

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The American Revolution

A history of the American Revolution, looking at nine time periods from 1756 to 1783, each with a narrative description of key events and a selection of firsthand accounts from diary entries, letters, speeches, and newspaper articles.

The American Revolution

2007
A history of the American Revolution, looking at nine time periods from 1756 to 1783, each with a narrative description of key events and a selection of firsthand accounts from diary entries, letters, speeches, and newspaper articles.

World War I

2007
Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on America's role in World War I, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.

The Progressive Era

2005
Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the Progressive Era in America, from 1890 to 1920, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.

The Gilded Age

2006
Examines the economic, social, political, and technological changes in America between 1865 and 1901 through the personal eyewitness accounts of those including Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Jennings Bryan.

Immigration

from the founding of Virginia to the closing of Ellis Island
2002
Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the history of immigration in America, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.

The 1960s

2003
Examines the events of the 1960s in the United States through firsthand accounts from letters, speeches, and newspaper articles, and includes introductory essays, a chronology, and excerpts from significant documents of the decade.

The civil rights movement

1993
Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the American civil rights movement, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.

Women's suffrage in America

2005
Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the history of women's suffrage in America, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.

The Roaring twenties

2007
Contains excerpts from memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and other primary sources that provide eyewitness reports on the 1920s in America, and features introductory essays, chronologies, period illustrations and photographs, and brief biographies of key individuals.

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