Offering a unique approach to history, this series of individual encyclopedias will delineate and explain the people, places, events, chronology, and ramifications of pivotal days in history. ONE DAY
With the Left and Right amusingly placed into left-hand (v.1) and right-hand (v.2) volumes respectively, this encyclopedia contains articles on the people, ideas, events, laws, and issues associated w
Often referred to as the “Gilded Age,” the period spanning from 1870 to 1900 encompassed both extravagant wealth and dire poverty in America. Due to this disparity, political agitators an
Two major historical events dominated the period from 1929 to 1949: the Great Depression and World War II. When the stock market crashed in October of 1929, economic hardship struck many American cit
The period following World War II was marked by great social change as a result of the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, and the youth opposition to the Vietnam War. The threat of nuclear
Flamboyant, excessive, and full of changes, the 1920s fell between the two great wars of the 20th century. Characterized in America by the trends of Prohibition, bootleggers, the Harlem Renaissance,
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An encyclopedia of covert activity may seem to be an oxymoron, but these volumes appropriately contain more history than fresh exposes of government secrets. The volumes cover intelligence and counter
Offering a unique approach to history, this series of individual, popular encyclopedias will delineate and explain the people, places, events, chronology, and ramifications of pivotal days in history
This work is a thought-provoking look at the original 13 colonies, presenting the facts and engaging the reader by using alternate history--what if key events had turned out differently?--to help dev
This work is a fascinating history of precontact North America, presenting the facts and engaging the reader by using alternative history--what if key facts were different?--to help develop critical t
What if Reagan had not been elected? Would the hostages held in Iran ever be returned? Would the US still turn to supply-side economics? Would there have been the first Persian Gulf War? This collecti
Offering a unique approach to studying one of the most eventful eras in American history, this volume looks at a dozen key events of the 1960s and 1970s and considers the possible paths history might
In this unique reference, leading historians describe not only how the expansion of the American nation in the early 19th century was a turning point in U.S. history that led to the Civil War, but als
On a summer day in July, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the world changed forever. On July 4, thirteen English colonies on the continent of North America decided to declare themselves free and
