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Includes "writings of more than a hundred women" who experienced the "trip across the continent." Revised edition includes material on "young girls ... between eight and sixteen for whom the monumental crossing was a lark."

"Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary people--including slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans. Viewed through the lens of Zinn's own life as a soldier, historian, and activist...

"This work 'is a chronological record of American life, events, and thought....It is a comprehensive general compendium of source material containing laws, speeches, stories, transcriptions of dialogues, on-the-scene reports, reminiscences, and other primary sources." Wynar Guide to Ref Books for Sch Media Cent. 3d edition

"Have you ever wondered how we know so much about people and events from the past? Much of what we know comes from studying items that were used in the past. Dive deeper into studying history by learning how to examine and learn from objects that were part of everyday life in the past."--

Here, in a single volume, are the documents (speeches, letters, tweets, Supreme Court decisions, and more) that have forged American history.