Selected readings shed new light on important events in black history and current developments in Negro protest movements

Contemporary writings and selections from historical works provide a broad perspective on the leader of the major slave rebellion

A critical biography of the Revolutionary pamphleteer, exploring the origins, expression, and impact of his ideas and the place of his radical ideology in the eighteenth-century world

Studies the interrelationship of social, political, and intellectual forces shaping the Civil War era, and the ways historians have interpreted them (view table of contents)

Studies the development of the American economy and society as well as the influence of this development on foreign relations and the spreading of the American culture

Studies the development of the American economy and society as well as the influence of this development on foreign relations and the spreading of the American culture

Traces the history of corporations in the United States and looks at how incorporation has affected business, politics, culture, education, and society itself

Looks at America's original, locally-controlled schools, describes the creation of state-controlled public school systems, and discusses the factors that shaped the reform movement

Describes the changes brought about by the Civil War, discusses the impact of slavery's end, and looks at the political, economic, and social aspects of Reconstruction (view table of contents)

Looks at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the South after the Civil War

Product Description: American historians survey the key works and themes in the scholarship of the last three decades. This revised and expanded edition includes three new essays on intellectual history, the history of the West, and the histories of the family. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Foner, Eric

A collection of short descriptive entries and longer evaluative articles covers the political, economic, cultural, and social history of the United States

Recounts the events in United States history that spawned the idea of populism.

Freedom's Lawmakers is the first comprehensive directory of America's first generation of black public officials--those who held office during the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War. With positions including congressman, justice of the peace, constable, and member of the legislature, the nearly 1500 officials listed here offer a panorama of the black community in all its diversity--freeborn and slave, Northern and Southern, rich and poor. The book draws on extensive research in the era's primary sources, and the voluminous literature on Reconstruction that has appeared in the past generation, providing information about the antebellum status, occupation, property ownership, military service, and other attributes of black officeholders. The concise biographies are augmented by 125 halftones, including seven composite photographs at the front of the book. In some cases, only a few pieces of information are available, but in a remarkable number of instances, the book traces the life histories of previously unknown individuals, most of them born as slaves, who played a role in America's first experiment in interracial democracy. The biographies follow many individuals into the twentieth century, illustrating the impact of these black Americans on post-Reconstruction society and the consequences for black Americans of the overthrow of Reconstruction.

Recounts the placement of Japanese Americans in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and describes their reactions to this unjust action

Looks at President Andrew Jackson's Indian policies, and describes how Indian tribes were forced to move to reservations in the Oklahoma Territory

Looks at the sixties in terms of its place in American history, and discusses the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the War on Poverty, and the drug culture

Examines the origins and history of the Cold War (view table of contents)

A collection of the work of Thomas Paine, the democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, includes Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason, plus letters and prophetic articles.

Product Description: Foner's book deals with the factors that brought the North to fight the Civil War. Foner has now written a new introduction that puts his argument in the book into the context of contemporary scholarship.

Describes how humans have changed the Columbia River, and discusses the way people interact with nature through work

Offers a broad view of American culture during the 1920s, discussing the changing values that ended the repressive Victorian era, the growing importance of pluralism in America's heterogeneous society, and the expansion of federal bureaucracy