American experience

A chronological examination of labor in the United States, from 1783 though 2006, that discusses how the work force was affected by slavery, Western expansion, war, the civil rights movement, and other key events in American history; and provides excerpts from speeches, journals, correspondences, and book passages. Includes chronologies; brief biographies; and primary source materials.

Traces the history of the criminal justice system in the United States from the sixteenth century to the early twenty-first; featuring primary sources such as newspaper accounts, eyewitness testimonies, and trial transcripts; and including chronologies, photographs, and discussion on important themes, people, issues, and events.

Traces the history and evolution of poverty in the United States from colonial times to the early twenty-first century, and includes chronologies, eyewitness testimony, photographs and illustrations, maps, brief biographies of notable people, and excerpts from primary source documents.