This volume of primary documents attempts to provide a survey of the ways in which the foundational political principle of equality between persons has been discussed and debated in relation to women over the course of American history. The documents illuminate the ways in which women acted out of an assumed equality with men despite often being denied legally equal status.
This collection of documents presents American history from 1493 to 1865 as a series of fifteen topics.
This collection of documents presents American history from 1865-2009 as a series of fourteen debates over a particular issue critical to understanding the corresponding period in American history.
This volume focuses on the American conversation about constitutional supports for personal rights against the state in the late eighteenth century.
This volume of primary documents on the causes of the Civil War presents the history of the American political order during its most tumultuous and challenging time.
Focused on the political, social, and ideological dimensions of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union which lasted for almost a half-century, from the mid-1940s through the early 1990s.
