1865-1920 The Advent of Modern America
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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