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Discusses the complex issues of both legal and illegal drug use throughout history, with a detailed history of the drugs that have garnered the most attention from the American public, beginning in the 1700s up to the present day.

Presents on overview of the major figures, events, and concepts of the Enlightenment along with nine documents from the era, including John Locke's "Some Thoughts concerning Education" and Voltaire's "Letters concerning the English Nation.".

Contains primary and secondary source documents that provide insights into the history of American Indians, from creation through 1877, including letters , memoirs, speeches, articles, interviews,treaties, government reports, and other documents of historical importance, each with a brief introduction.

Text and photographs look at the Underground Railroad and discusses the acceptance of slavery as well as the rejection of it.

This timely title discusses the creation of the atom bomb and the post-World War II nuclear arms race that shaped the consciousness of generations. Primary and secondary source materials such as contemporary photos, speeches, letters, and newspaper accounts are examined, offering readers insight into a world reeling from years of conflict, and the competing political and social ideologies of the former Soviet Union and the United States and its allies. Topics covered include the Manhattan Project, the dropping of the first atomic bombs, and the escalation of the arms race, as well as nuclear treaties and the relevance to today's nuclear threats.

This comprehensive title is a thought-provoking examination of how early gold rushes shaped settlement and industry in North America. Using material from the 1848 California Gold Rush, the 1896 Klondike Gold Rush, and other rushes in Georgia, Montana, and British Columbia, primary and secondary sources about these rushes are examined with respect to race and ethnicity, the displacement of Indigenous peoples, and different perspectives on law and order in the emerging West. Readers will be encouraged to think critically about labor and environmental practices, and the relationships between settlers and Indigenous people both in the past and today. .

"Readers take on the role of historical detectives as they examine photographs as primary sources and discover how they can be used to study the past."--Publisher.

This book describes the immigrants who came to California in the late 1840s and early 1850s, telling of a few people who struck it rich and of many people who did not strike it rich but stayed and made their livelihoods in other enterprises.