1775-1865

Follows the slave trade from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to its abolishment after the Civil War, and describes slavery's impact on the people bought and sold.

In 1851 New Bedford, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Cape Verdean sailor Lucky Valera is kidnapped by his estranged half-brother and forced to work in a mill, but while Lucky is plotting his escape he meets a former slave and a young Quaker girl who influence his plans.

Describes the life of the pioneers who settled the forest lands lying between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River between 1790 and 1840.

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.

Alphabetical entries present the culture, history, and key figures of the American South in the half-century before the Civil War.

After her parents' deaths during the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Corrine is sent to reform school in Culpeper, Virginia, where she discovers a sinister plot involving a race of faeries and the disappearance of some of the students.

Describes how Clinton, the leading Anti-Federalist in the country, allowed the New York State Convention to ratify the Constitution in pursuit of his ambition to become Washington's first vice-president.

In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abigail and her little brother Seth find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine, and help her discover a way to support them all.

Ten-year-old Beth takes an exciting trip to pre-Civil War New York City with Marmee and Father.

Presents a comprehensive study of the colony of Virginia, and contains information on Native Americans who occupied the territory, early explorers and the first European settlements, tensions between the colonists and England, and more.