Final volume in a trilogy : the first of which is the author's "The Americans : the colonial experience" ; and the second of which is his "The Americans : the national experience."
To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation's ideological...
296 "eyewitness accounts from ... memoirs, letters ... travel books, as well as newspapers," by Marco Polo, Benvenuto Cellini, Charles Dickens, Queen Victoria, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and others.
Celebrate American history and learn about the public and private lives of our Presidents ; Senator Ted Kennedy and his dog, Splash, invite children on a typical whirlwind day on Capitol Hill ; A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President ; The true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it. Suports early reading; leadership ; history knowledge.
The first female justice on the United States Supreme Court provides a history of the American legal system, discussing landmark cases that have shaped American democracy and her own experiences as a justice.