Defining moments

"Provides users with a detailed and authoritative overview of events surrounding the harrowing 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, telling the story of the tense thirteen-day standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more"--Provided by publisher.

"An authoritative overview that explains how the attack on Pearl Harbor led to the evacuation and internment of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans; details living conditions in the camps; discusses the economic, emotional, and physical toll on interned Japanese-Americans; and ponders the legacy of internment on American society. Includes biographies, primary sources, and more"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a short biography of Rosa Parks, and chronicles her childhood in segregated Alabama, her education and association with the NAACP, and her refusal to give up her seat on the bus, which sparked the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955.

Presents a detailed account of the Korean War exploring keys events and conflicts, provides biographical information on leading figures such as President Truman and Douglas MacArthur, and includes primary source documents, speeches, memoirs, and official papers.

Examines the long-term global effects of the Vietnam War; and includes narrative overviews, biographical profiles, primary source documents, chronology, and annotated sources for further study.

Provides an overview of immigration in the U.S. in the years between 1870 and 1920, discussing the reasons why people left Europe and other parts of the world to come to America and their experiences settling in a new country, and features biographies of leading people of the era, and a selection of primary source documents.

Presents a narrative overview of the attack on Pearl Harbor, with biographies of leading figures of the era, such as Mitsuo Fuchida, Douglas MacArthur, and Chester W. Nimitz, and includes a variety of primary sources, including letters and memoirs.

Presents an overview of events such as the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the Hoover years, Roosevelt's First New Deal, the Dust Bowl, and the Second New Deal, and contains biographies of Herbert Hoover, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, Hugh S. Johnson, Frances Perkins, Henry Wallace, and Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

A history of the Gilded Age offers biographies of the period's leading figures, primary source documents, and coverage of places and terms to introduce industrialization in America, muckraking investigative journalism, and the era's legacy.

Examines the role the Muckrakers and the Progressive Era played in American history, profiles notable figures from the era, and collects primary sources related to the topic.