Primary sources in American history

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount several turning points in American history: the Salem witch trials, the Battle of the Alamo, the California gold rush, the construction of the Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad, and the victory of the women's suffrage movement.

A collection of primary source materials highlights the story behind the Alamo and its place in the history of San Antonio, Texas.

Describes the people, circumstances, and events surrounding the building of the railway system across the continent in the mid-nineteenth century.

Presents a history of the struggle by American women to win the right to vote.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount how the mid-nineteenth century California gold rush affected Americans and immigrants and how it shaped history.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount how construction of the Erie Canal changed America by vastly improving the movement of goods to settlers in the newly purchased Louisiana Territory.

Examines the events and key figures behind the formation and operation of the Underground Railroad, the secretive and illegal organization that helped American slaves escape to freedom in the northern United States and Canada.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of slavery in the United States.

Primary sources bring to life the immigrant experience through a history of America's most famous point of entry, Ellis Island.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the witch hunt and trials that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century.