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Great Events from History: American History, 1850-1918 War, Peace & Growth
Great Events from History: American History, 1850-1918—War, Peace & Growth is a welcome addition to the long-running Great Events series by Salem Press. This brand-new title is the third release in a new sub-series devoted to American History and the crucial events that shaped the country’s continued growth.
This third entry in the new Great Events from History -- American History series picks up where the second left off, encompassing slavery, the American Civil War, the Reconstruction era, ongoing relations with Native Americans, the country’s expansion and admission of new states to the Union, shifting politics and successive presidential elections, the expanding roles of women in society, the coalescence of American culture, expansion of commerce and industry, and ultimately the nation’s entry into World War I.
These volumes present the lives of such figures as:
- Herman Melville
- William McKinley
- Abraham Lincoln
- Robert E. Lee
- Andrew Johnson
- Helen Hunt Jackson
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Benjamin Harrison
- Ulysses S. Grant
- James A. Garfield
- Millard Fillmore
- Stephen A. Douglas
- Grover Cleveland
- James Buchanan
- John Brown
- Chester A. Arthur
- Susan B. Anthony
- Louisa May Alcot
- Clara Barton
- Eugene V. Debs
- Thomas Edison
- Franklin Pierce
- Jeanette Rankin
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Margaret Sanger
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- William Howard Taft
- Henry David Thoreau
- Mark Twain
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- Walt Whitman
- Woodrow Wilson
In addition, this set immerses students and readers in the events of both the Civil War and World War I, and the nation’s growth in-between:
- The Emancipation Proclamation of 1862
- The U.S. Civil War from 1861-1865, with separate articles on notable battles
- "Black Codes" of the 1860s
- Passage of civil rights acts
- Wars with Native Americans
- The admission of 17 states to the Union, and important land purchases
- Presidential elections from 1852-1916
- The Spanish-American War of 1898
- The Boxer Rebellion in China, 1900
- World War I from 1914-1918
Detailed yet accessible essays provide a summary of the event and discuss the event’s significance and historical impact. Entries are supplemented with sources for further reading, maps, quotations from primary source documents, timelines, and hundreds of photographs and illustrations.
Designed for history students at the high school and undergraduate levels, public librarians will also find the set, and the series as a whole, invaluable as a reference tool for students at all academic levels.
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