A collection of biographical sketches that profile the lives of ordinary Americans from colonial times through the Reconstruction.

Assembles biographical stories of famous leaders and unknown activists, covering the 18th century up to 1970. Relates to enslaved artisans, interracial unionism

Calhoun (history, East Carolina U., Greenville) offers a reader of 19 biographical essays from a series surveying modern US history from the perspective of a di

In the brief biographical essays of The Human Tradition in America since 1945, students will meet a wide range of diverse individuals-both men and women, rich a

American society in the years from 1920 to 1945 experienced great transformation and upheaval. Significant changes in the role of government, in the nation's wo