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In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, -Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else - With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the young nation's coal trade. By the middle of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia's leadership in the American coal industry had completely unraveled while Pennsylvania, at first slow to exploit its vast reserves of anthracite and bituminous coal,...

• Provides students with over 50 essential documents from the Early Republic: the first five decades of the USA
• Includes lesser-known documents, for example Thomas Jefferson's rules for 'republican etiquette'
• Incorporates eyewitness testimony from major historical figures, alongside that of ordinary people from the period
• Includes an introduction, document...

• Provides an overview of Andrew Jackson's life and legacy, grounded in the latest scholarship and including original research spread across a number of thematic areas
• Features 30 essays contributed by leading scholars and historians
• Synthesizes the most up-to-date scholarship on the political,...

Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the -industrial hearth- appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs in home heating markets used to convince consumers that their product designs and fuel choices were superior, and how elite, middle-class, and poor Americans responded to these overtures.

Adams depicts the problem of dwindling supplies of firewood and the search for alternatives;...

• Provides students with over 50 essential documents from the Early Republic: the first five decades of the USA
• Includes lesser-known documents, for example Thomas Jefferson's rules for 'republican etiquette'
• Incorporates eyewitness testimony from major historical figures, alongside that of ordinary people from the period
• Includes an introduction, document...