Product Description: These letters and documents offers a glimpse into a young officer's interesting but short life. The book features the relationships between the headstrong John Rodgers Meigs and his family and friends; his eagerness to please his demanding parents; his West Point experiences; and his life as a combatant in the Civil War...read more

Product Description: Documents of the Emerging Nation traces the efforts of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and others to establish a credible international presence of the country as a new nation. Diplomatic despatches, private letters, and other documents from archives, libraries, and historical societies-including the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and French and British sources-reveal events in the formative years of U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Jackdaw primary source kit for The Emerging Nation: America 1783-1790. Contains exhibits, broadsheets and a study guide.