This anthology highlights the Constitution's treatment of voting and elections, leaders who have influenced voting practices, the electoral college, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and more.
The migration of over six million Southern blacks to the Northeast and Midwest had a tremendous impact on life in the U.S. Leaving natural disasters, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, and racism, they were soon confronted by new problems and challenges in the North. At the same time, many African Americans came together in the arts, centered in Harlem, with a spirit of hope and pride. This volume presents the philosophies of Booker T. Washington, ...
Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source documents underpin the introduction to U.S. history in History Compass' popular Research American History series. In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote. The trials and achievements of those in the movement for voting rights for women are expressed in the Report of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, a speech by Sojourner Truth, letters, journals, newspap...
This anthology details the wave of westward expansion that began with the Louisiana Purchase. Topics include the Lewis and Clark expedition, Zebulon Pike, trappers and traders, the early Oregon Trail pioneers' 49s of gold rush fame, the Mormons, the Pony Express, and America's first transcontinental railroad.
Excerpts from treaties, transcribed histories from Wampum belts, journals, newspaper accounts, and graphics bring to life Indian wars from the Colonial period to the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee.
An introduction to some of the greatest inventors from each century in American History, the public's reaction to their innovations, and how their inventions changed the course of history.
This compilation of primary sources provides a detailed view of the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, covering freed slaves, carpetbaggers, presidential policy, Radical Republicans, social and economic problems in the South, Black codes, voting rights, the KKK, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
Children at Work depicts the harsh conditions under which children worked in the 19th and early 20th centuries in mills, factories, mines, and cities, as told through personal accounts of the children and the words and photographs of social reformers. Often required to help support their families, children served as unregulated and inexpensive labor for a growing U.S. industrial economy. Later, reformers publicized children's working condition...
