Examines the development of the industrial age from the early 1700's and the effects it had on all aspects of society. Includes a chronology of key dates, glossary and index.

The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan which encompasses the social, political, and economic changes that accompanied the Industrial Revolution.

Profiles the lives of American inventors, engineers, and scientists whose major technical accomplishments occurred during the Industrial Revolution and on through the beginning of World War II, arranged chronologically by birth date, and including such people as Charles Goodyear, George Eastman, and Margaret Bourke-White.

Examines the efforts of the American people to expand the western border of the United States to include everything between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Describes the development and construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, discussing the concept of Manifest Destiny, the Industrial Revolution, the race between the Central Pacific and Union Pacific, and problems that arose from work on the project.

Describes the history of American westward expansion, including the exploration of the frontier to the Pacific Ocean, the establishment of the Lone Star State and the Mormon kingdom of Deseret, Manifest Destiny, the California gold rush, the population of the plains, and the legacy of the American frontier.

Discusses the historical and cultural background of the Mexican-American War and its major battles.

Examines the people and events involved in one of the most controversial wars in history.

Discusses the fact that the history of the immigrants in America is the American history happening.

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of Mexican Americans, including their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America. Also examines the factors that have encouraged emigration from Mexico.

The autobiography of Sojourner Truth, the nineteenth-century African-American woman who moved from slave labor to preaching and promoting abolition and women's rights; also includes a collection of writings and anecdotes dating from Truth's lifetime.

Offers a brief introduction to the life and times of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, focusing on her outspoken views in favor of women's right to vote and to divorce.

A biography of Susan B. Anthony, discussing what life was like for women of the nineteenth century, and describing how Anthony's vision for equality between men and women led to the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the United States.

A collective biography of important American women who fought for the female right to vote, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth.

Discusses the contribution of immigrants to the culture of the United States during the twentieth century.

Provides comprehensive information on the suffrage movement in the United States and differing perspectives accompanying it.

Pictures and text describe how the freedom of women fluctuated with periods of war and peace between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II.

A biography of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton from her childhood, to her fight for the end of slavery, to her death 18 years before women were granted the right to vote.