1865-1898

Explains how people can learn about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at how they existed in the 1890s.

Provides access to opposing viewpoints about controversial issues in United States history since Reconstruction in selected works by leading historians.

Examines the Reconstruction period of the south at the end of the Civil War and discusses such issues as the end of the Confederacy, Lincoln's and Johnson's opposing views, the Freedman's Bureau, Lincoln's assassination and the Johnson presidency, and African Americans in the post-war decades.

As the Civil War ends, Cheney finds it's a difficult path to practice medicine as a woman.

Tamsin, haunted by her grandmother's prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a crucial decision, learns the truth of that prediction when she follows her enemy, Alistair Knight, back in time to Victorian-era New York where he has traveled on a mission to destroy her family.

Miles Pryce, determined to collect a debt from his cousin Jefferson Dunford, provokes a family tragedy when he puts money before compassion.

Covers the history of the United States including the rise of organized labor; strikes and labor strife; women and children in the workplace; political corruption and city machine politics; and Populists, Socialists, and Anarchists.

Covers events in the history of the United States from isolationism to expansionism; the purchase of Alaska; federal Native American policies; the Spanish American War; the Panama Canal; dollar diplomacy and intervention in Latin America; and the Open Door Policy.

In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.

Three men--a Sioux doctor, a Lakota chief, and a senator--face conflicts during the systematic plunder of the American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. Includes special features.