Joy Hakim

Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.

Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.

Discusses the period of growth in American history prior to the Civil War, describing the lives of people from a variety of backgrounds, including Jedediah Smith, Emily Dickinson, John James Audubon, and Sojourner Truth.

"When did we start learning the scientific secrets of life? Step back to the Islamic Golden Age, when scholars ask questions about life science and medicine that will establish those fields. Chart a path through the Renaissance, as Leonardo da Vinci dissects cadavers by candlelight to learn human anatomy firsthand." --Publisher's description.

Contains source documents for American history, and the series index. Designed to accompany Joy Hakim's ten-volume A History of US, this volume contains a collection of great American documents and primary sources, tracing the gradual unfolding of ideas of freedom in America through letters, declarations, proclamations, court decisions, speeches, laws, acts, the Constitution, and other writings.