1865-1918

Examines the development of women's secondary education in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression, and its effect on the division of labor in America's cities.

"The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"--Provided by publisher.

In an Arizona silver mining town in the 1880's, an encounter with "spiritism" gives a fourteen-year-old a new understanding of people.

During the early 1900's, a young Jewish girl's loyality to family tradition conflicts with her desire to go to college.

Uses the life of Susan B. Anthony as a backdrop to present the history of people in America from 1845 to 1928.

Examines significant events in the history of the United States, focusing on the progressive movement that occurred at the turn of the twentieth century, ushering in social, political, and economic reforms.