History Firsthand Books
Using primary sources, this anthology traces the war from its outbreak at Fort Sumter in 1861 to the Union victory at Appamattox Court House in 1865. Topics covered include fighting for the Union, life as an army officer, the role of the black soldier in the Union army, and life on the home front.
Discusses the history of slavery and the events leading to the arrival of African slaves in the colonies; slave culture, religion, and life on the plantations; abolitionists; and the end of slavery.
It was an time of flappers, Model T Fords, a soaring stock market, Lucky Lindy and bootleg gin. The Roaring Twenties relives the 1920s through the eyes of those who witnessed it first hand, and brings the excitement, frivolity, and cultural transformation of that era to life.
Presents a collection of articles and essays exploring the Renaissance.
On December 7, 1941, a day that continues to live in infamy, the Japanese surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor stunned the world and drew the United States into World War II. Collected in this volume are numerous riveting eyewitness accounts of that historic day, as told by both American and Japanese participants.
A terrifying disease arrived in the ports of southern Italy and Sicily in the fall of 1347. Within two years, one-third of Europe's population had died of the bubonic and pneumonic plagues. As the sickness spread rapidly from one town to the next, the people of medieval Europe struggled in vain to find its cause and its cure. Letters, reports, medical treatises, and literary accounts collected in this book vividly describe the plague, the terror it brought to those who witnessed it, and its larger effects on medieval society.