history

Examines the history of the gun control debate in America through primary documents including speeches, letters, congressional testimony, court decisions, government reports, biographical accounts, position papers, statutes, and news stories.

Follows the University of Oregon's women's basketball team through the 1994 season, discussing how coach Jody Runge fought to win equal funding and treatment for herself and her team, and looking at the efforts of Runge and the players to become a force within the league.

A decade-by-decade history of twentieth-century women, discussing the changes and interchanges that have taken place in the lives of British and American women in the years between 1900 and 1995; with essays on a variety of topics including popular fiction, prostitution, and lesbian culture, and brief biographies of approximately four hundred women.

Surveys the work of African-American professional photographers from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century: Jules Lion, Augustus Washington, James P. Ball, the Goodridge Brothers, Cornelius M. Battey, and Addison Scurlock.

Presents the history of the abortion issue in the United States, using primary documents such as position papers, government reports, and biographical accounts.

Provides information about the people, groups, organizations, art, music, ideas, events, locations, and authors related to the counterculture of the 1960s.

A collection of Native American speeches that were made over the past 500 years including the words of Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, and Tecumseh.

Surveys the work of American women photographers over the past 150 years, examining what they photographed and why, as well as how they worked.

Surveys the history of the death penalty, describes different methods of execution, and discusses the legal and ethical ramifications using case histories.

Photographs and text document the full range of African-American experience in the North American frontier, and discusses how African-Americans, in their various roles as doctors, ranchers, politicians, lawmen, soldiers, cowboys, miners, and outlaws, contributed to westward expansion in the post-Civil War era.