History firsthand

Contains excerpts from the writings of over twenty eyewitnesses to the settling of the American West, including Lewis and Clark, Catherine Haun, Fanny Kelley, Timothy Flint, and others, and features a chronology of significant events, and a bibliography.

Contains twenty-four essays that examine various aspects of the Renaissance, looking at the period as the age of humanism, and discussing politics and exploration, religion and philosophy, science, art, and daily life.