Contains over twenty essays by a variety of authors in which they analyze the historical progression, underlying causes, and competing strategies of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Contains eleven essays in which the authors examine the history, causes, and economic and cultural impact of the fourteenth-century plague known as the Black Death.
Presents twenty-five essays on World War I, its origins, and its legacy, as well as a comprehensive introduction, a chronology, a bibliography, and a collection of primary source documents.
Eighteen essays examine political and cultural aspects of the settlement of the American frontier, discussing such topics as Manifest Destiny and war, the California Gold Rush, the transcontinental railroad, and the latter influence of America's frontier heritage. Also includes a collection of primary documents, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and a comprehensive introduction.
Contains nineteen essays that provide information about the Cold War, discussing the origins and early years of the conflict, Cold War hot spots, and the end of American support for detente and the last years of the Soviet Union. Includes personal reflections on the Cold War.
Presents eighteen essays on Communism's founders, its rise in Russia, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and its political, social, and cultural impacts, and includes a collection of primary source documents, a chronology, and a bibliography.
Contains over twenty essays in which the authors examine various aspects of the Renaissance, discussing its origins, political and social contexts, discoveries and transformations, achievements and developments, and significance.
