history

Analyzes the various disputes that went into making the railroads, and argues that despite aims to promote settlement and commerce along rural railroad lines, people and money continued to flow to the larger cities and rural life lost its attraction.

Assesses the commentary of American newspaper editors, columnists, and prominent commentators regarding the events and issues related to concluding the war against Japan, with examples of the thoughts, attitudes, opinions, and perceptions of citizens on the home front on how best to end World War II.

A journalist traces the history of apartheid in South Africa discussing the forces which grew to oppose it and how a massive race war was avoided by the peaceful creation of a coalition government headed by Nelson Mandela.

Chronicles some of the most ambitious structural and civil engineering projects, from Egypt's pyramids to present-day oil rigs.

A study of factors impacting the United States' decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, based on military reports, diaries, and personal letters.

Historical account of the distinguished accounting firm of Price Waterhouse (PW).

Presents a study of the temperance movement, focusing on the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the suffrage movement, identifying the campaigns as separate, but equally important expressions of early feminism, and crucial to later demands by women for equal rights and protection under the law.

Examines the historical influences that led up to the Holocaust, showing that German anti-Semitism was not just a product of Nazi fanaticism, but was born of a racist ideology that has its roots in the Napoleonic era.