@lt;DIV@gt;Compelling firsthand accounts and primary source U.S. history documents underpin History Compass' popular Perspectives on History series. By the 1780s, about 97,000 slaves a year were being sent to the Americas on more than 800 slave ships. Most went from Africa to the West Indies, where they were trade for molasses. In New England, colonists used molasses to make rum. British merchants completed the triangle of human misery by trading rum for more slaves. This anthology of primary and secondary sources covers the slave trade and its abolition.@lt;/div@gt;

@lt;DIV@gt;When World War II broke out, Roosevelt led the nation through a dramatic changeover to a wartime economy. Women found a new place in the workforce; Americans at home pulled together to economize through rationing of food, tires, gasoline, silk, and more; families grew their own produce in their victory gardens; and school children saved their pennies to invest in war bonds. This volume of life on the U. S. homefront tells the stories of the people, in their own words, who lived through those times: black Americans who faced increased prejudice, women who embarked on new careers,...

@lt;DIV@gt;Through original photographs and documents and the words of those who lived through it, World War II: The European Theatre gives insight into the global struggle in which the fates of so many people hung in the balance. This volume gives an overview of how and why the war began, selected key battles and strategies, America's role, the Allied victory, and the aftermath.@lt;/div@gt;