This two-volume reader consists of original essays, with decade of American history represented by at least one essay. The stories cover a range of topics such as: popular culture; women's history; urban history; and the history of science and technology. The essays also shed light on political, social, economic and cultural trends.

A kaleidoscope of fifteen stories about United States history.

In this true story, Robert Henry Hendershot is only 12, but he's determined to help the Union cause, so he becomes a drummer boy. At the Battle of Fredericksburg, he manages to sneak across the Rappahannock--and to capture a Rebel soldier. Illustrations.

A seasoned historian assembles a remarkable cadre of authors, who reveal forgotten, true stories of the American frontier.

Part memoir, part eyewitness history, part storytelling, this book takes you on a rollicksome ride through a generation of experiences. True Stories traces the evolution of a New World Culture from the Beatnik 1950s through the passions and protests and psychedelics of the 1960s, and onward into environmental and cross-cultural arts and political movements which today are thriving around the world. Told with humor and peppered with the authors philosophy, these stories take the reader to party with author Jack Kerouac, protest with the saintly Dorothy Day, and drop acid with Merry Prankster Ken Kesey. The history recounted here uncovers the origins of The Oregon Country Faire, the Rainbow Gatherings and the infamous Vortex Festival. The tales thread their way through the intimacies of Americas West Coast communes, caustic anti-Vietnam War protests, the beauty of creating community gardens in vacant city lots, and the untold tale of what really brought down the Soviet Union.

Image stepping out of your door one day and looking at the people walking by and the cars moving down the street in front of your house, but they are wearing different clothes and driving different cars than the ones you were yesterday. The Street is the same street, your house is the same house, but the people are not. They dress differently, speak faster, and move quicker, it is like everyone shifted into a different speed. Well, that maybe how people who lived and worked 60 years ago could feel when the compare yesterday with Today.