This book describes the immigrants who came to California in the late 1840s and early 1850s, telling of a few people who struck it rich and of many people who did not strike it rich but stayed and made their livelihoods in other enterprises.
Provides over twenty articles from the era of slavery in which slaves and abolitionists discuss the experience of fleeing slavery, the perils and punishments of trying to escape, efforts to assist runaways, and obstacles to freedom.
Presents twenty-three firsthand accounts of the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack and its aftermath, each with an introduction, and includes an introductory overview of the attack, a chronology, and a further reading list.
Presents twenty-two eyewitness accounts of events in the Nazi death camps, covering arrivals at the camps, work detail, survival and daily life, confrontation of death, the perspectives of Germans, and liberation.
