1775-1865

Provides an account of the yellow fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793, discussing the chaos that erupted when people began evacuating in droves, leaving the city without government, goods, or services, and examining efforts by physicians, the Free African Society, and others to cure and care for the sick.

Adhering to the most current research, this book shows the years after the American Revolution when New York underwent a period of growth. This engaging book provides information on the events that made New York such an invaluable part of the United States. Discusses many influential writers, inventors, and leaders who provided valuable contributions to the growing state and newly formed country. Text is supported by primary sources and images from the period, as well as maps.

Free and on his own, Daniel Linnehan is nearly sixteen in 1839 when he joins Jonathan Stocking and Billy, a girl hiding from her abusive father, in peddling goods in New England.

During the time of the Civil War, Cassius Howard, a carpenter and slave on a Virginia tobacco plantation, risks everything to avenge the murder of Emoline, a slave woman who had previously taught him to read in secret and saved his live once.

Traces the history of the Underground Railroad, describing how it helped slaves escape through New York and New Jersey, with maps of the major escape routes, locations of houses and sites where slaves were hidden, and information on the slaves' final destinations.

This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal.

This prequel, inspired by Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind," recounts the life of Mammy from her days as a slave girl to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Chronicles the yellow fever epidemic of 1973, which centered in Philadelphia. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the epidemic, it includes black-and-white reproductions of period art and facsimiles of newspaper excerpts.