gemini us history

Interprets the onset of the Civil War as a breakdown in America's democratic political process, discussing the changes in the Second Party System from the 1820s through the 1850s.

Presents an overview of the struggles African Americans have endured and overcome in the last 400 years.

Maps, photographs, appendices, and text chronicle the participation of abolitionists in the Adirondack region in the Underground Railroad, profiling key contributors, abolition meetings and conventions, and Underground Railroad stations in each county.