1865-1898

Examines Progressivism and muckraking as dynamic forces in American life looking at various eras, events, and individuals from William Lyon Mackenzie to Woodrow Wilson.

Features firsthand accounts from white and African-American republicans that describe how American politicians fought amongst themselves in Washington and how the government battled against industrialists after the end of the Civil War.

Ragged Dick is a poor boy who rose from rags to riches. He, in turn, becomes the protector of Mark, the match boy.

Depicts the post-war South and the Reconstruction period which failed to free the newly liberated blacks from white racism and describes the simultaneous migration and settling of the Old West which ultimately left thousands of Native Americans dispossessed and segregated. Includes color illustrations, maps, and photos and also presents a chronology, a timeline, a glossary, and an index.

Examines the lives of a number of men and women in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the era when America became a world superpower, and the influence they had in creating the new America. People like President Rutherford B. Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Margaret Sanger are introduced and their contributions to society analyzed.

Gore Vidal dramatizes the U.S.'s centennial through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler, who returns to New York from exile and arranges for his widowed daughter to marry a rich man--and corruption seeps into Charlie's family even as it rages at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Illustrator Si Morley steps out of his twentieth-century New York apartment one night--right into the winter of 1882.

Explores the history of the United States from 1880 to 1917, focusing on the development of economics, World War I, the invention of the airplane, and other key events.

In 1870, Tulip Jones, a wealthy, self-reliant widow from England, acquires the By-Golly Gully Ranch in Texas and soon finds herself saddled with 1000 suitors.

Discusses what happened after the American Civil War ended and during the reconstruction period.