Perspectives on history

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Women in the American Revolution

2009
An anthology of letters, journals, eyewitness accounts, poetry, and illustrations which provide insight into the role of women on both sides of the American Revolution.

Perspectives on history series: using primary source documents

Primary source documents relating to various periods of American and World History.

Perspectives on history series: using primary source documents

Primary source documents relating to various periods of American and World History.

Perspectives on history series: using primary source documents

Primary source documents relating to various periods of American and World History.

Women in the Civil War

warriors, patriots, nurses, and spies
2007
Focuses on the roles women played in the Civil War, drawing from their own words as recorded in journals and diaries.

World War II

The Pacific Theatre
1997
Provides an overview of how and why the war in the Pacific came about, major battles, military strategy and excerpts from personal narratives of those who experienced it.

Mill girls of Lowell

2007
Describes the working conditions experienced by women laborers in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, with first-hand accounts, photographs, journal entries, and more.

Andrew Jackson

heroic leader or cold-hearted ruler?
2014
Describes Andrew Jackson's actions during the War of 1812 and the Trail of Tears.

Western civilization

2001
Contains primary and secondary source readings which trace the history of western civilizations from the Scientific Revolution to the present.

Western civilization

original and secondary source readings
2001
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