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This book is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in this fascinating period of U.S. history.

After a historical overview that opens the book, railroad historian Augustus Veenendaal explores the technology that made the railroads possible and the innovations in financing that got them built.

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Published in 1859, "The Origin of Species" challenged the belief in the fixity of species and argued that species can adapt to their environment and develop accordingly. This book explores how Darwin came to these conclusions and includes biographies of influential figures, primary source letters and selections from "The Origin of Species".

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Primary documents such as the Oregon Treaty of 1846, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and the Polk's declaration of war against Mexico enable students to see actual historical evidence from the time period.

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Contains narrative chapters that guide the reader from Marco Polo's exploration of the Mongol empire to Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, the search for a Northern Passage, Henry Hudson's voyage to Greenland, the discovery of Tahiti, and more.

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Few periods in American history have aroused as much debate as the years immediately after the Civil War, those commonly referred to simply as Reconstruction.

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Since the days of antiquity people have been forced into servitude because of differences in gender, race, class, religion, or level of power. This volume discusses age and gender, caste and class, and origin and ethnicity as the factors, effects and legacy of one of the oldest and most outrageous human practices.

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Derived from the moral accountability called for by the Great Awakening and the Quaker religion, the abolitionist movement demanded not just the gradual dismantling of the system or a mandated political end to slavery, but an end to prejudice in the hearts of the American people.

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Romanticism arose as a reaction, most noticeably in the arts, to the Enlightenment's worship of Reason. This volume explores the critical aspects of the Romantic movement, including its origins as a reaction to the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, its artistic works - and its environmentalist and nationalistic legacies.

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What the United States is today, how it views the role of its national government in its daily life, how it interprets its relations within its diverse population, and how it has evolved as a world power are largely the results of the cataclysmic struggle that shook the American republic in the mid-19th century.

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A starting point for student and general-reader research, this concise reference guide surveys the events that brought about the birth of the American republic. It includes an overview essay that traces the course of the Revolution and five essays on various aspects of the conflict.

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Offers historical narratives, five or more in-depth issue essays, primary source documents, biographies, and bibliographies of books, Web sites and other resources.

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In addition to a historical overview, other essays explore the deterioration of the ancien rgime and the birth of the revolution, the Terror, the culture of the Revolution, Revolution-era diplomacy, and the ambiguous legacy of the Revolution.

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The Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the mid-seventeenth century transformed the British economyand later the economies of Western Europ and the U.S.from a rural, agricultral system into an industrial society, centered around the factory system of mass production and specialized labor.

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Fritz demonstrates how a series of unrelated events converged to make the Lewis and Clark expeditionand America's dream of westward expansiona reality.

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Victory over Mexico added vast western territories to America, but it also quickened the domestic slavery debate and crippled Mexico for decades, making the Mexican War one of our most ambiguous conflicts.

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Offers a social and historical exploration of the Ottoman Empire. This book explores the Central Asian Origins of the empire, the conquest of Asia Minor, the Fall of Constantinople, the decline of empire and European conquest, reform and political awakening, and the rise of nationalism and the disintegration of the Ottoman state.

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In modern spiritual revivals, religious debates, and newer Church reforms, we can still see the legacy of the era Linder calls Midwife to the Modern World.

The event that Linder calls Midwife to the Modern World still resonates today, in modern spiritual revivals, religious debates, and newer Church reforms.

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Designed as an introduction to the age of the scientific revolution, this book offers readers and researchers an appealing mix of narrative chapters, biographical sketches of key figures, and annotated primary documents.

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Beginning with overviews of the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism, Hankins details the wider impact these spiritual revolutions had on antebellum America's social, political, racial, and gender matters.

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The 1898 war between the United States and Spain receives relatively little attention in most American history texts, yet it is an event of major importance.

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In 1838, President Andrew Jackson's administration forcibly relocated Cherokees from their homelands in Georgia to the Western territories. This book explores the events surrounding this removal, including the conflict between Cherokee culture's preservation and the call to assimilate, and the negotiation of legislation and land treaties.