Traces the course of the Civil War from 1861 through 1865, and features excerpts from primary and secondary sources, quotations, time lines, and other reference helps.
Chronicles the agricultural revolution in Europe between 1700 and 1850 that led to population growth, changes in land ownership and economic trade, and ushered in the industrial age of the late nineteenth century.
Discusses various topics connected to the production of the atom bomb, including the development of nuclear energy, work on atomic weapons at the Los Alamos and other sites, and the decision to use the first atomic bomb during World War II.
Discusses the history of the Soviet Union, from the revolution of 1917, through the Lenin and Stalin eras and the rule of such leaders as Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev, up to the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
