1783-1865

Presents the life of John Quincy Adams, including his childhood, education, employment, and political career.

Discusses the private life and public career of the third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Young Ren, an orphan in nineteenth-century New England, is rescued from the orphanage by Benjamin Nab, who claims to be Ren's brother; but as time goes on Ren begins to question who he can and cannot trust.

Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities. Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Almost every quotation here is written by a woman, to a woman, or about a woman. From first ladies to freethinkers, educators to explorers, this exceptional group includes Abigail Adams, Margaret Bayard Smith, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Catherine Adams, Eliza Hamilton, Theodosia Burr, Rebecca Gratz, Louisa Livingston, Rosalie Calvert, Sacajawea, and others.--From publisher description.

A collection of illustrated photographs, prints, paintings, and artifacts, as well as selected writings that chart the life and ideas of John Adams from his years as a schoolteacher and lawyer to diplomat and president.

Presents an overview of the important events in American history from 1789-1850, including the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark's expedition, and the beginnings of abolitionism.

Describes the period before the Civil War, from 1820 through 1860, and presents the youth in America and popular culture, including fashion, food, literature, art, and music, and such people as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty, and Frederick Law Olmstead.