Captain John Smith was one of the most insightful and colorful writers to visit America in the colonial period. While his first venture was in Virginia, some of his most important work concerned New England and the colonial enterprise as a whole. The publication in 1986 of Philip Barbour's three-volume edition of Smith's works made available the complete Smith opus. In Karen Ordahl Kupperman's new edition her intelligent and imaginative selection and thematic arrangement of Smith's most important writings will make Smith accessible to scholars, students, and general readers alike. Kupperman's introductory material and notes clarify Smith's meaning and the context in which he wrote, while the selections are large enough to allow Captain Smith to speak for himself. As a reasonably priced distillation of the best of John Smith, Kupperman's edition will allow a wide audience to discover what a remarkable thinker and writer he was.

H.L. Mencken's account of his censorship court case in 1926 with the New England Watch and Ward Society and its spokesman, J. Frank Chase.

From 1718 to 1775 British courts transported 50,000 convicts to America. This account of their transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia combines analysis with narrative to provide insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders on both sides of the Atlantic.

Newhall discusses the initial introduction of the daguerreotype in America in 1839, the beginnings of the daguerreotype industry, the entrepreneurs and innovators, the incredible Broadway daguerreotype galleries, the explorers, the quest for a color process, and more. In America, Daguerre's initial technique became greatly modified; the new process that evolved is described in detail in a special chapter. Originally published in 1961, this third edition contains all of the original text and illustrations plus sixteen additional pages of plates, corrections, and minor text revisions.

Jerrie S. Cheek presents a collection of Web sites pertaining to the United States, appropriate for use with elementary social studies classes. The collection offers curriculum enrichment materials, as well as lesson plans and other activities. Topics in the collection include flags, national parks, the history, the Census Bureau, individual states, and more. The Kennesaw State University Educational Technology Center in Kennesaw, Georgia, provides the collection online.