Presents the history of the Civil War, including sections on the role of women in American society at the time and on the great impact of the war on American medicine, through excerpts from letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and other documents of the time.

Presents the history of the westward expansion of the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, journal entries, and laws of the time.

"Describes the history of the women's rights movement in the United States, from colonial times to the present day, through the use of primary sources such as letters, diary entries, official government documents, newspaper articles, historical art, and photographs." Provided by publisher.