Description: Eyewitness History is an interdisciplinary and multicultural series that reveals how significant events were seen and interpreted by people from all levels of society. Excerpts from primary sources -- memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers, speeches, advertisements, and more -- provide a wide range of viewpoints and enhance a compelling narrative, prompting students to develop the critical-thinking skills that allow them to construct their own opinions about the people and their times.

A Complete Perspective

Each volume is a comprehensive and self-contained reference work that features:
-- Hundreds of eyewitness accounts that bring history to life
-- Essays starting each chapter, that provide historical context and that highlight major events and attitudes of the period
-- Chronologies that provide a detailed historical perspective
-- Contemporary illustrations and photographs
-- Excerpts from relevant documents of the day
-- Brief biographies of key individuals, personalizing historic events

Some volumes also contain maps and graphs that provide visual context, helping students gain a richer understanding of historical events.

A Rich Mosaic of Eyewitness Accounts from Past Eras

Excellent for students and general readers, the Eyewitness History series deepens readers' understanding.

The 1920s, familiarly known as the "Jazz Age, " was a decade of newfound personal freedoms, economic prosperity, artistic license, rampant consumerism, and political isolationism. The Roaring Twenties explores this time period, making it vivid and immediate for readers.

Featuring narrative text, eyewitness accounts, photographs, and biographies of the participants, The RoaringTwenties is an extensive social, economic, and political history of the time. The volume describes a society in deep conflict: workers and owners, immigrants and "natives, " men and women, and different racial and ethnic groups. Author Tom Streissguth also examines the segment of the American population who looked back to a "better" past, advocating a return to traditional values, segregation of the races, law and order, social uniformity, and temperance.

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