What made the 19th century an interesting but tumultuous time? What technological, cultural and social changes influenced life then? Explore those issues in this story collection.
8-3.2 The role of SC in the Constitutional Convention including the Three-Fifths Compromise and Commerce Compromise
Before laws are passed granting women's rights, women cannot make contracts, get divorced, vote, hold office, attend college, or earn a living.
After his slave ordeal is over, Solomon Northup brings charges against the people who wrongfully sold him into slavery. Because a black person cannot ...
During the U.S. Civil War, people who live in Confederate states write books and use currency made specifically for them.
By 1904, when this photo was taken aboard a bark called Sunbeam, not much had changed in the method by which whalers removed spermaceti (high-quality ...
Expertsbelievethe Olmec civilization is thefirst societyin Mesoamerica and that they have awritten formof language.
Poe's gambling and borrowing leads to debt; left on his own, he leaves Virginia and returns to Boston as a literary critic.
Meet and see photographs of key Civil War participants.
Elizabeth Packard spends her life trying to change mental health laws and women's property rights.
Under medical care, Vincent appears better and creates many brilliant works.
Edgardo is taken from his parents, despite protests from his family and community.
Meet some of the people who pack up their belongings and head west.
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