True Stories from the American Past: Vol. I, to 1865

by Altina L. Waller (Contributor)

This two-volume reader consists of original essays, with decade of American history represented by at least one essay. The stories cover a range of topics such as: popular culture; women's history; urban history; and the history of science and technology. The essays also shed light on political, social, economic and cultural trends.

Genres: History

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Sandra Strange]

This book is a collection of articles about incidents in America's past. I appreciated the first article with its interesting thesis and details about Jamestown, but the next three seemed to build a lot of article out of very little facts, but I held on and read the other articles, interesting and well supported; the articles treat incidents from the Peggy Eaton challenge of Jackson's presidency, the beginnings of West Virginia, and interesting fragments on slavery and canal building before the Civil War. Informative and fun to read for history fans.

[Averin]

George Chauncey, Jr.'s "The Postwar Sex Crime Panic".