Time Period 1914 - 1945 The United States and Two World Wars

The "Dust Bowl" describes both a time in American history (the mid 1930s) and a region of the country (the Great Plains). As a result of severe weather included blinding dust storms caused by drought, misuse of the land by farmers, and the economic pressures of the Great Depression, farmers and their families in a large area of the Central United States were faced with loss of usable land, lack of work, and extreme poverty. This is their story, told in their own words and in photographs. Selections include newspaper accounts, letters, interviews, memoirs, songs, government documents, FDR's "Second New Deal," and an excerpt from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

ISBN: 1-579600-018-2      Price: $7.95      Pages: 60     

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Ellen Hansen, an historian and an attorney, presents a closer look at the famous "Monkey Trial" that shook the nation in 1925. Dramatic dialogue presented by William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow during the trial is complemented by excerpts from the Constitution, Isaac Asimov, and the 1981 Arkansas Trial on the same subject.

ISBN: 1-878668-34-X      Price: $7.95      Pages: 64     

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The Great Depression in the 1930s brought vast devastation to America's economy and to its people. This volume presents an overview of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the deteriorating economic conditions that soon had the nation in their grip. Excerpts from interviews, magazine and news articles, letters, and historic photos provide a vivid picture of the human suffering brought on by the economy's massive breakdown. Selections from Maya Angelou and John Steinbeck's works are included.

ISBN: 1-878668-46-3      Price: $7.95      Pages: 64     

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The editor's introduction surveys the Manhattan Project and explains some of its most central scientific underpinnings. Most of the readings that follow are firsthand accounts with selections from Einstein, Oppenheimer, Groves, Tibbets, William Laurence, John Hersey, and Enrico and Laura Fermi. Photographs included.

ISBN: 1-878668-41-2      Price: $7.95      Pages: 64     

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When Franklin D. Roosevelt became President in March of 1933, the nation was near the depths of the Great Depression and demoralized. Under his leadership, the "New Deal" quickly began to take shape. It constituted a series of programs that gave the federal government a more substantial role in helping the nation's economy return to and then stay on a steady and prosperous course. The volume includes writing by Eleanor Roosevelt, the major New Deal Programs, a section on Roosevelt's critics, cartoons, and photos.

ISBN: 1-878668-47-1      Price: $7.95      Pages: 68     

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The decade of the 1920s began in turmoil and ended in turmoil but, in between, Americans breezed through the amazing years known as the "Roaring Twenties." This anthology tells the story through letters, diaries, news accounts, interviews, poetry, and a host of illustrations. This lively anthology touches on prohibition, gangsters, political corruption, the rebirth of the KKK, new immigration policies, jazz, flappers, movies, sports stars, aviation heroes, easy money, and playing the stock market.

ISBN: 1-878668-65-X      Price: $7.95      Pages: 60     

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Shipwrecks have fascinated people for hundreds of years. In this volume, the fate of the Titanic, the Luisitania, the Essex, the Andrea Doria, and the Brother Jonathan, are detailed. Editor Phyllis Raybin Emert parallels Melville's text from Moby Dick with actual accounts from the survivors of the whaling ship Essex.

ISBN: 1-57960-011-5      Price: $7.95      Pages: 64     

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The war, which many thought would be history's last, began in a region once again in the news near the end of the twentieth century -- Bosnia. Although the United States remained on the sidelines for well over two years, its eventual entry tipped the balance and contributed powerfully to bringing the awful hostilities to their end. This volume offers the reader a selection of primary source documents that relate to preparation for the war, life in the trenches, the treatment of African-Americans at the time, post-war struggles, conflict over the Fourteen Points, and several historians' interpretations of the war.

ISBN: 1-878668-91-9      Price: $7.95      Pages: 64     

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This overview of World War II, the European and Pacific Theatres, includes excerpted documents from key figures and world leaders, the average citizen and soldier, and new reporters. Several documents are compared to the current situation in the world effort to eliminate terrorism. At the back of the book are several documents for students to evaluate on their own.

ISBN: 1-57960-076-X      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

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When World War II broke out, Roosevelt led the nation through a dramatic changeover to a wartime economy. Women found a new place in the work-force; Americans at home pulled together to economize through rationing of food, tires, gasoline, silk, and more; families grew their own produce in their victory gardens; and school children saved their pennies to invest in war bonds. This volume of life on the U. S. homefront tells the stories of the people, in their own words, who lived through those times: the black Americans, struggling against increased prejudice; the women who embarked on career tracks which would change their opportunities to this day; and the Japanese internment camps.

ISBN: 1-878668-60-9      Price: $7.95      Pages: 64     

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America's involvement in the European theatre is presented through excerpts from radio broadcasts, news accounts, photos, letters, journals, and government documents, introduced with essays by editor Phyllis Raybin Emert. It tells the story of American troops landing on the beaches and flying bombing missions over Europe, along with words from leaders from both sides of the war.

ISBN: 1-878668-76-5      Price: $7.95      Pages: 64     

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This volume of documents on the war in the Pacific deals with the origins of the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and early island conquests by Japan. The major battles of the Coral Sea, Midway Island, Guadalcanal, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa are focused upon, as is the role of submarines and airpower in the fight to control the sea and sky over the Pacific. Documents include those of Japanese and American military leaders, soldiers, and civilians.

ISBN: 1-878668-86-2      Price: $7.95      Pages: 64     

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