history

Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the Romantic period, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.

Profiles eighteenth- and nineteenth-century games and sports, arranged by geographic area, providing histories, instructions for play of the time period, equipment lists, alternate rules and variations, and diagrams.

A biography of Mary Harris Jones, the union organizer who worked tirelessly for the rights of workers.

Presents volume four of a fourteen-volume series on World Religions exploring the origin, development, and traditional beliefs of Catholicism, and discusses the separation of the Eastern and Western churches, central doctrines of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, and the controversial issues of abortion, birth control, and the priesthood.

Surveys the invention, development, and different uses of rockets, from their beginnings in ancient Greece and China to modern efforts to explore outer space.

Discusses the people and events connected to the struggle to achieve women's rights, including the right to vote, from its origins in the mid-1800s through the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Discusses the past and present political upheavals that drove the Cubans to American soil and their ultimate success.

Examines the military career of Andrew Jackson, discussing his battles against the Indians, with a focus on his role in the passage of the Indian Removal Act which led to the expulsion of Native Americans from the eastern half of the continent; and argues that the forced removal actually ensured the survival of the tribes.

Traces the African-American struggle, from slavery to the present, to overcome racism and racist laws thereby becoming constitutionally and legally equal to other American citizens.