almanacs

Presents the year-in-review of 2000, preliminary 2000 election results, a Noted Personalities section, a color section of maps and flags, and thousands of facts and statistics on economy and business, U.S. populations and cities, science, the Internet, astronomy, each of the United States, and the nations of the world.

Presents biographical profiles of twenty-five significant figures of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in such areas as politics, science, social activism, and entertainment.

Presents overviews of such aspects of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era as industrialization, immigration, westward expansion, and invention, and includes a time line and a glossary.

Authoritative collection of political, economic, scientific, and educational information, with thousands of facts not available elsewhere.

Provides the indexes of three works making up the "U-X-L Gilded Age and Progressive Era reference library" series.

Contains accurate, up-to-date information about the United States, including a survey of the nation as a whole, profiles of each of the fifty states and all the U.S. territories, a guide to Internet sites for each state, and other related topics.

Presents thousands of facts and statistics about a wide variety of subjects, such as economy and business, science, sports, and noted personalities, and includes the year in review, discussion of the terrorist attack on America in September 2001, and a color section of world maps and flags.

Provides the history, growth, and achievements of African-Americans, with brief biographies of noted individuals in such areas as politics, sports, music, science, education, and religion.

Describes and interprets the era of the Civil War with viewpoints, definitions, research and activity ideas, chronologies, sidebars, and statistics.