1865-1918

Learn about the powerful people who guided the nation through the development of the industrial United States.

From 1900 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, interviewees from Europe, Asia, and the United States recount the part they played in the century's early history.

Examines various aspects of the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, a period in American history characterized by prosperity and industrialization as well as political and business corruption.

Examines the changing roles played by women in the early twentieth century.

In the fall of 1909, Lucy gets an early start on making Christmas presents for her family and friends, which they will open at the church's Christmas program.

Political, economic and social survey of America from the turn of the century to the start of World War I.

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.