Perspectives on history series

Contains photographs, letters, and other documents that provide information about the experiences of homeless children who were placed aboard so-called orphan trains that took them from New York and other eastern cities to families in other parts of the country.

Contains character sketches of the delegates to the Federal Convention in Philadelphia, and provides insights into the contents and creation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights through excerpts of those documents, as well as selections of primary source materials generated by the delegates.

Traces the history of the labor movement in America through a collection of primary source documents, as well as the thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Cesar Chavez, Eugene Debs, and others.

Contains excerpts from primary source documents that provide insight into the role of the child in the American labor force from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the late twentieth century.

Contains excerpts from primary source documents, as well as commentary from the editor, that provide information about many of the masterminds of the Age of Technology, including Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and others.

An anthology of folklore, poetry, letters, journal excerpts, essays, photographs, and documents that provide insight into the history of the Indians of the American Southwest.

Essays and short stories provide a look at life in the factory for females who worked in the cotton mills of Lowell, Mass. in the 1840s.

A collection of writings detailing the lives and traditions of the Cherokees in the eighteenth century before they were forced from their southern homelands and sent west.

A collection of journals, newsclips, historic photos, poems, songs, essays, and political cartoons highlighting the woman's suffrage movement in the United States.

Presents a selection of primary source documents that provides insight into the unique characteristics of life in the Southern towns and colonies of pre-Revolutionary America.