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The Alamo
by Mary Dodson Wade
A gripping introduction to the fierce battle at the Alamo on March 6, 1836, The Alamo includes eyewitness accounts of the battle and a roster…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-95-6 Price: $7.95 64 pages, paperback
Child Labor in America
by Juliet H. Mofford
Children have always worked to help their families, on farms and in the home. With the growth of factory labor and increasing numbers of immigrants…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-98-1 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968: We Shall Overcome, Some Day (2nd ed.)
by Mitch Yamasaki
Noted historian Mitch Yamasaki’s anthology features speeches, oral histories, and writing of political leaders, civil rights leaders, and many of the average citizens who fought…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-20-4 (2nd ed.) Price: 7.95 102 pages, paperback
Colonial Triangular Trade: An Economy Based on Human Misery
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
By the 1780s, about 97,000 slaves a year were being sent to the Americas on more than 800 slave ships. Most went from Africa to…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-48-6 Price: 7.95 63 pages, paperback
Coming to America: A New Life in a New Land
by Katharine Emsden
Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source U.S. history documents underpin History Compass’ popular Perspectives on History series. Excerpts from the diaries and letters of young…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-23-3 Price: 7.95 63 pages, paperback
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
by Wim Coleman
Accounts of Shays’ Rebellion, the Articles of Confederation, the call for a Federal Convention, key excerpts from the Virginia Plan, and notes recorded by James…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-057-0 Price: 7.95 68 pages, paperback
Crime and Punishment: The Colonial Period to the New Frontier
by Pat Perrin and Wim Coleman
Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source U.S. history documents underpin History Compass’ popular Perspectives on History series. This volume introduces criminal justice in the American…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-047-1 Price: 7.95 68 pages, paperback
Cry “Witch!”: The Salem Witchcraft Trials (2nd ed.)
by Lawrence Gain and Juliet H. Mofford
Amid a time of turmoil, the “afflicted girls” of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts cried out against scores of accused witches. Smallpox epidemics, drought, and Native American…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-18-1 (2nd ed.) Price: 7.95 78 pages, paperback
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A World in Peril
by Karl E. Valois
For 13 days in October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other, on the brink of potential nuclear disaster as they…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-92-9 Price: 7.95 68 pages, paperback
The Declaration of Independence
by Wim Coleman
Excerpts from the works of John Locke, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Ben Franklin, and others provide an in-depth look at ideas on slavery, government, liberty,…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-024-2 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Dust Bowl
by David C. King
The “Dust Bowl” describes both a time in American history (mid-1930s) and a region (the Great Plains). Severe weather, misuse of land by farmers, and…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-018-1 Price: 7.95 60 pages, paperback
Echoes of the Civil War: The Blue
by Stephen M. Forman
This selection of letters, speeches, journals, and eyewitness accounts of the Civil War presents the views of soldiers, nurses, and political and military leaders from…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-83-7 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
Echoes of the Civil War: The Gray
by Stephen M. Forman
Letters, journals, and government documents provide a glimpse of life during the Civil War from the Confederate point of view. Among selections from military leaders…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-84-4 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
Forward into Light: The Struggle for Woman’s Suffrage
by Madeleine Meyers
Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source U.S. history documents underpin History Compass’ popular Perspectives on History series. This collection of speeches, journals, newspaper articles, photographs,…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-25-7 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Great Depression: A Nation in Distress
by Janey Beyer and JoAnne B. Weisman
The Great Depression brought devastation to America’s economy and its people. Excerpts from interviews, magazine and news articles, letters, and historic photographs give a vivid…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-46-2 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Korean War: Limits of American Power
by Karl E. Valois
The words of President Truman, General MacArthur, Senator McCarthy, President Eisenhower, and others, reporters’ stories, and letters from soldiers shed light on the war, which…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-81-3 Price: 7.95 60 pages, paperback
Lone Star: The Republic of Texas 1836-1846
by Stephen L. Hardin
Award-winning Texas historian Stephen L. Hardin provides an excellent overview of the Republic of Texas. In 1836, when Texas won its independence from Mexico, many…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-63-9 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Manhattan Project: A Secret Wartime Mission
by Kenneth M. Deitch
Compelling firsthand accounts from the inventors of the first atomic bomb describe the Manhattan Project. Additional accounts from scientists, reporters, and soldiers, among other primary…
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ISBN: 978-1878668-41-7 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Mexican War
by Wim Coleman
In 1846, two American nations went to war, precipitated by the U.S. annexation of Texas. This volume presents excerpts from the memoirs, letters, poetry, and…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-25-9 Price: 7.95 66 pages, paperback
Mill Girls of Lowell
by Jeff Levinson
The pre-Civil War textile industry in Lowell, Massachusetts exemplified the American industrial revolution and heralded a nationwide shift from farm to factory. During this time,…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-15-0 Price: 7.95 70 pages, paperback
The New Deal: Hope for the Nation
by Cheryl Edwards
When Franklin D. Roosevelt became President in March of 1933, the nation was near the depths of the Great Depression. Under his leadership, the “New…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-47-9 Price: 7.95 68 pages, paperback
The New England Transcendentalists: Life of the Mind and of the Spirit (2nd ed.)
by Ellen Hansen
New England Transcendentalists gives readers insight into the idealism and romanticism running through 19th century Transcendentalist philosophy, thought, and spirituality and into the movement’s critique…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-17-4 Price: 7.95 44 pages, paperback
Pride and Promise: The Harlem Renaissance
by Kathryn Cryan-Hicks
This introduction to the age of the Harlem Renaissance includes documents highlighting Black migration to the North, excerpts from political speeches, essays of W.E.B. DuBois,…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-30-1 Price: 7.95 52 pages, paperback
The Progressive Movement: 1900-1917
by A.J. Scopino, Jr.
The Progressive Movement evolved around the turn of the century as a response to the transformation of the country from an agricultural nation to an…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-94-3 Price: 7.95 60 pages, paperback
Reconstruction: Binding the Wounds
by Cheryl Edwards
This compelling anthology of primary sources describing the period of post-Civil War reconstruction focuses on problems facing the freed slaves, carpetbaggers, Presidential policy and Radical…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-24-2 Price: 7.95 68 pages, paperback
Shipwrecks: The Sinking of the Titanic and Other Disasters at Sea
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
Shipwrecks have interested readers for centuries. In this volume, primary sources detail the fate of the Titanic, the Lusitania, the Essex, the Andrea Doria, and…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-011-2 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World: The Beginnings of the American Revolution
by Jeanne Munn Bracken
The beginnings of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord come alive through personal narratives from participants and observers and through primary sources representing British…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-32-5 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Spanish-American War: America Emerges as a World Power
by Mary Alice B. Robinson
In 1898, American troops fought in what Secretary of State John Hay referred to as a “splendid little war” in Cuba and the Philippines. In…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-015-0 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
Talkin’ Union: The American Labor Movement
by Juliet Haines Mofford
Labor historian Juliet Mofford presents the story of workers in the U.S. from the late 1700s to the present: the Industrial Revolution, the formation and…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-79-0 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
The Underground Railroad: Life on the Road to Freedom (2nd ed.)
by Pat Perrin
A fascinating collection of primary and secondary source materials from a variety of perspectives on this period in America’s history. Excerpts include the dramatic escape…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-051-8 Price: 7.95 66 pages, paperback
The Vietnam War: How the United States Became Involved (2nd ed.)
by Mitch Yamasaki
Through a collection of original source documents and the words of those who lived through it, The Vietnam War gives insight into the historic background…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-14-13 Price: 7.95 70 pages, paperback
War of 1812
by Mary Alice Burke Robinson
Primary sources detail the course of the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain and its Native American allies, with emphasis on the…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-007-5 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
Women in the American Revolution
by Jeanne Munn Bracken
Women in the American Revolution picks up where usual historical accounts of the Revolutionary War leave off — with the varied roles and contributions of…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-23-5 Price: 7.95 79 pages, paperback
Women in the Civil War: Warriors, Patriots, Nurses, and Spies (2nd ed.)
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
From freedom fighters and spies to volunteer nurses and patriots on the homefront, women of the North and South served critical and largely unexamined roles…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-19-8 Price: 7.95 84 pages, paperback
World War II: On the Homefront
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
When World War II broke out, President Roosevelt led the nation through a dramatic changeover to a wartime economy. Women found a new place in…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-60-8 Price: 7.95 64 pages, paperback
World War II: The European Theatre (2nd ed.)
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
Through original photographs and documents and the words of those who lived through it, World War II: The European Theatre gives insight into the global…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-12-9 Price: $7.95 64 pages, paperback
World War II: The Pacific Theatre
by Phyllis Rabin Emert
This volume on the war in the Pacific deals with the origins of the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and early island conquests by…
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ISBN: 978-1-878668-86-8 Price: $7.95 64 pages, paperback
America’s Founders
by Pat Perrin
Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source documents underpin the introduction to U.S. history in History Compass’ popular Researching American History series. This volume introduces our…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-097-6 Price: $8.95 Paperback, 52 pages
A Century of Westward Expansion
by JoAnne Deitch
Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source documents underpin the introduction to U.S. history in History Compass’ popular Researching American History series. This anthology, A Century…
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ISBN: 978-1-5760-064-8 Price: 8.95 Paperback, 56 pages
Children at Work (2nd ed.)
by JoAnne Deitch
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…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-16-7 Price: 8.95 56 pages, paperback
The Civil Rights Movement
by Pat Perrin
Set against the background of discrimination and violence against African-Americans in the early and middle 20th century, this volume introduces the ideas and people behind…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-081-5 Price: $8.95 Paperback, 56pp
The Civil War
by Arden Bowers
The Civil War pitted North against South, brother against brother, in a series of devastating battles and philosophical confrontations that would divide the nation for…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-071-6 Price: 8.95 56 pages, paperback
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights (2nd ed.)
by Pat Perrin and Wim Coleman
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights presents the foundation documents for the United States government, as told through the original documents and words of…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-11-2 Price: 8.95 56 pages, paperback
The Declaration of Independence
by Pat Perrin and Wim Coleman
Through letters, speeches, political tracts, and summaries of the document text, this volume provides insight into the Declaration of Independence, the principles that underpin it,…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-070-9 Price: 8.95 54 pages, paperback
The Great Depression
by JoAnne Deitch
From Hoover’s early warnings through the end of the Great Depression, this volume concentrates on the challenges citizens faced in their daily lives, with the…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-067-9 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
A Nation of Inventors
by JoAnne Deitch
This volume looks at some of the greatest inventions from each century of American history, from farming innovations to transportation, communications to computers, along with…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-063-7 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
Northern Migration and the Harlem Renaissance
by JoAnne Deitch
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,…
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ISBN: 978-157960-068-6 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
Orphan Trains
by Jeanne Munn Bracken and JoAnne Deitch
In 1853, Rev. Charles Loring Brace founded the first of many orphanages and social agencies to provide for the homeless street children in New York. …
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-084-6 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
Reconstruction
by JoAnne Deitch
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…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-072-3 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
The Revolutionary War
by Pat Perrin
Through primary sources and background material, readers learn the causes and course of the Revolutionary War and the American victory and about the writing of…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-061-7 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
Slavery
by Pat Perrin
This volume introduces students to the institution of slavery through a compilation of slave narratives, government documents, songs, and other firsthand accounts of those involved…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-062-4 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
Spanish Explorers
by Pat Perrin
Covering the early stages of Spanish ocean and overland exploration and the Spanish conquest of the Americas, this book contains primary source and background material…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-088-4 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
Transportation Stories
by Pat Perrin
Firsthand accounts and stoies tell of transportation in America’s history, from stage coaches to trains, trolleys to canal boats, ships to planes.…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-098-3 Price: $8.95 52 pages, paperback
Voting in America
by JoAnne Deitch
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…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-092-1 Price: $8.95 52 pages, paperback
Woman’s Suffrage
by JoAnne Deitch
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…
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ISBN: 978-1-57960-066-2 Price: $8.95 56 pages, paperback
A Dangerous Search: Black Patriots in the American Revolution. Book 1 – From Lexington to Bunker Hill
by Nancy I. Sanders
Based on actual events in the Revolutionary War and some of the African-American men who shaped those events, A Dangerous Search tells the story of…
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ISBN: 978-1-932663-22-8 Price: 7.95 103 pages, paperback
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