1783-1865

Presents an introductory essay that provides an overview of the Age of Revolution, from 1775 to 1848, and features over thirty readings, including primary and secondary documents, that highlight the major developments of the era. Includes a chronology and bibliography.

In 1810s Massachusetts, young Mary Elizabeth Sawyer nurses a sickly lamb back to health and becomes the subject of a famous nursery rhyme. Includes facts about the real Mary, John Roulstone who wrote the rhyme, and Lowell Mason who set it to music.

In 1790, the suspicious residents of a small Vermont town try to trick the man who has been sent to count their population for the first United States Census.

Describes disgusting details about daily life during the U.S. Civil War, including housing, food, and sanitation.

Presents a biography of Thomas Jefferson that illuminates Jefferson's roles as a family man, politician, and president. Discusses how Jefferson's understanding of power and human nature allowed him to develop powerful new ideas and find the will to succeed and win. Includes full-color and black-and-white illustrations.

Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities. Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Almost every quotation here is written by a woman, to a woman, or about a woman. From first ladies to freethinkers, educators to explorers, this exceptional group includes Abigail Adams, Margaret Bayard Smith, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Catherine Adams, Eliza Hamilton, Theodosia Burr, Rebecca Gratz, Louisa Livingston, Rosalie Calvert, Sacajawea, and others.--From publisher description.

Relates the story of the author's grandparents and parents, who, though not famous, helped build the United States.

Draws from primary sources to examine the causes, people, events, and outcome of the War of 1812 between the newly formed United States and England.

Offers a brief introduction to the War of 1812, including a timeline and profiles of key events and figures.

Describes the history, government, industries, schools, society, culture, and westward expansion during the first fifty years of United States independence.