Enhanced by period maps and first-person accounts, presents the history of colonial Rhode Island.

An eyewitness history of the American Revolution, from the opening shots at Lexington and Concord to Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown. Quotations from famous and anonymous men in the ranks are linked with the author's own passages to create a fully integrated narrative. "This superior 'living history' is completely engrossing".--Library Journal.

Provides a history of New York from the arrival of the Dutch to its becoming independent from the British.

An introduction to colonial Maryland, describing the history, economy, and daily life of the colony.

A history of South Carolina from its beginning as an English colony to 1788 when it became the eighth state.

Learn about colonial Virginia.

In their own voices, the full story of the women and men who struggled to make American democracy whole With a record number of female candidates in the 2020 election and women's rights an increasingly urgent topic in the news, it's crucial that we understand the history that got us where we are now. For the first time, here is the full, definitive story of the movement for voting rights for American women, of every race, told through the voices of the women and men who lived it. Here are the most recognizable figures in the campaign for women's suffrage, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, but also the black, Chinese, and American Indian women and men who were not only essential to the movement but expanded its directions and aims. Here, too, are the anti-suffragists who worried about where the country would head if the right to vote were universal. Expertly curated and introduced by scholar Susan Ware, each piece is prefaced by a headnote so that together these 100 selections by over 80 writers tell the full history of the movement--from Abigail Adams to the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 and the limiting of suffrage under Jim Crow. Importantly, it carries the story to 1965, and the passage of the Voting and Civil Rights Acts, which finally secured suffrage for all American women. Includes writings by Ida B. Wells, Mabel Lee, Margaret Fuller, Sojourner Truth, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frederick Douglass, presidents Grover Cleveland on the anti-suffrage side and Woodrow Wilson urging passage of the Nineteenth Amendment as a wartime measure, Jane Addams, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, among many others.