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Explores the idea of the American dream, discussing the relationship between education and jobs, technological displacement of workers, downward mobility among certain groups, labor mobility and home ownership as indicators of the health of the idea of the American Dream.

Contains fifteen full or excerpted documents related to the history and development of television, from 1936 to 2005, and includes sidebars, photographs, a time line, and definitions.

A guide to teaching middle school students about medieval and ancient times using the graffitti of the times.

Contains a collection of documents from newspapers, journals, periodicals, and trade publication from the North and the South on issues of African American protest and migration between 1915 and 1918 following the economic depression in the South after World War One.

A collection of political writings and testimonials from African-Americans in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Presents first-hand accounts of the experiences of African-American workers from the 1930s through the 1990s, providing insight into the conditions under which they worked and the struggles they waged to improve their lives at work and in society.