A Focus book

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt battles with the Supreme Court which he considers too conservative to uphold necessary reform legislation.

Describes the events leading up to and during the Constitutional Convention and discusses its importance in subsequent American history.

Describes the events surrounding the Bonus March of 1932 when World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand payment of bonuses due them from the government for their wartime services.

Discusses that period in American history when ministers such as Theodorus Frelinghuysen and Jonathan Edwards stirred in men a sense of worth and dignity which eventually produced the movement for independence.

Describes the eleven-year armed conflict in Kansas territory between the proponents of slavery and the free staters.

Describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the raid led by John Brown on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

Chronicles the events which led to Jefferson's acquisition of Louisiana from Napoleon Bonaparte.

Traces the causes, proceedings, and results of the Senate investigation of Senator McCarthy's attack on the United States Army.

Traces the events that led to the first resignation of a President in United States history.