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"Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters-more than a hundred published for the first time-to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others."--Amazon.com.

Explores the construction of the transcontinental railroad that opened coast-to-coast travel in the United States.

Discusses the voyage of the Mayflower and the difficulties that drove the Pilgrims to make the voyage to a new land.

Presents the sourcebook and index to volumes one through ten of "A History of US" series, and contains a collection of documents, letters, court decisions, speeches, laws, and other writings, such as the Mayflower Compact, presidential addresses, and Gettysburg Address.