Presents eighteen debates covering controversial issues between the colonial period and Reconstruction and addresses topics such as the reliability of history, religious and political reforms of the Great Awakening, purpose of the Monroe Doctrine, and post-Civil War corruption.
Presents opposing viewpoints on sixteen controversial issues in American history, such as the Cold War, the Kennedy assassination, immigration, and women's liberation, covering a period that ranges from 1945 to 2002.
Presents opposing viewpoints on sixteen controversial issues in American history, such as the Cold War, the Kennedy assassination, immigration, and women's liberation, covering a period that ranges from 1945 to 2002.
Explains how lack of confidence, weak Confederate nationalism, and the strength of Evangelical Protestantism contributed to the South's defeat in the Civil War.
This book provides a clear outline from which readers can gain valuable knowledge about the war that saw Americans taking up arms against one another over the secession of eleven southern states from the Union. Readers explore the stories behind the most important moments in the Civil War from the battlefields to the home front.
A biography of Christopher Columbus with emphasis on how historians have worked and are still working to find out the truth about his life and discoveries.
