Currie, Stephen

Presents a history of the abolitionist movement in America between 1830 and 1865, and describes the efforts by many including the Quakers, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and other to organize in hopes of destroying the slave system.

Presents a historical overview of the sixteenth century and chronologically arranged primary and secondary source documents on the period, covering European culture and politics, England as a world power, the Renaissance, the Reformation, exploration, the fall of the Aztecs and Incas, and events in Africa, the Turkish Ottoman Empire, Japan, and India.

Presents chronologically arranged primary and secondary source articles that examine some of the major political, social, and cultural events of the fourteenth century.

Presents a concise history of slavery in the Americas with the arrival of the first Africans in the early 1600s, and describes the rise of the plantation South, the revival of slavery with the cotton gin, slave rebellions and the Underground Railroad, and the end of slavery in 1865.

Examines the problem of child labor during the early twentieth century, focusing on a protest march from Philadelphia to New York City in 1903 by a group of child textile workers led by Mother Jones.

Explores the impact of the Civil War on women's lives, as well as the many roles played by women on and off the battlefields.

Discusses various aspects of theatrical life, including staging and performance, financing, types of acting troupes, and social and economic influences.

Discusses the lives, education, successes, and failures of such explorers as John Franklin, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott as they ventured into the Arctic and Antarctic.

Discusses various issues regarding immigration, including assimilation, jobs, services, illegal immigration, and policy.

London in the nineteenth century was a fascinating place, a city that had some of the greatest wealth of its time?and some of the poorest people to be found anywhere. Crime, daily life, the treatment of children, and arts and sciences are among the topics discussed.