Impact on America. Collective biographies

Examines the lives of a number of men and women in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the era when America became a world superpower, and the influence they had in creating the new America. People like President Rutherford B. Hayes, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Margaret Sanger are introduced and their contributions to society analyzed.

Briefly explores the lives and contributions to the new nation of the United States and the American world by people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Frederick Douglass.

Readers will discover some of the notable military and political leaders of Revolution as well as some of the lesser-known figures instrumental to securing the country's future.

Profiles many of the individuals who sought to fulfill the promise of the New World, from explorers to religious and political leaders to writers who captured the spirit of the time, as well as those native inhabitants who strove both to preserve their ways of life and to peacefully coexist with the new settlers.

These adventurers charted previously unknown territories, encountered, and often tragically exploited, native peoples, and changed the fate of the global landscape.

Profiles many of the soldiers, generals, political leaders, and social activists who left indelible marks on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, thereby altering the entire course of American history.