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Contains approximately 160 primary sources on American history and culture from 1920 to 1929, featuring many different types of sources, arranged chronologically in twelve categories, including the arts, education, government and politics, media, medicine and health, religion, and sports.

Contains approximately 160 primary sources on American history and culture from 1900 to 1909, featuring many different types of sources, arranged chronologically in twelve categories, including the arts, education, government and politics, media, medicine and health, religion, and sports.

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.

Presents a collection of controversial essays that debate various issues in American history from the Colonial period through the Civil War and Reconstruction years; including reasons to colonize the New World, conflict with Native Americans, justification of the Revolutionary War, the creation of government, expanding the nation, freeing the slaves, and civil liberties.

Discusses people involved in the War of 1812, including Andrew Jackson, Chief Tecumseh, and Isaac Brock.

Presents a collection of controversial essays that debate various issues in American history from the Reconstruction period to the present including the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan, labor unions, social Darwinism, Prohibition, and national security.

Provides an account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany as recorded between 1933 and 1941 in the secret diaries of historian Victor Klemperer, a Dresden Jew and World War I veteran.

A collection of two hundred letters which were written to Mrs. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1941 by children who were asking her to help them receive material assistance during the Great Depression.

A chronologically organized discussion of various historical documents, such as the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Voting Rights Act, with excerpts, quotes from books, newspapers, and speeches, and original images.