Charting the history and geographic development of the major American religions, this atlas displays in detail the intimate relationship between American religion and the events that formed the nation. These maps explore a wide range of American creeds, encompassing such diverse groups as the English Puritan settlers, the Catholic immigrants of the 19th and 20th-centuries, and the African American Southern Baptist movement.

Looking at general trends and specific items such as life in a tenement, women working overseas in World War I, the production of cosmetics in the 1920s, and new female immigration, this atlas portrays the history of American women from a vivid geographical and demographic perspective. In a variety of colourful maps and charts, this important new work documents milestones in the evolution of the social and political rights of women.

With coverage including the first European settlers and resultant Native American immigrations, the Civil War, and the contemporary fight against crime, this historical atlas provides a unique geographical perspective on the history of the South.