It highlights innumerable facets of the American landscape and lifestyle as it developed over the centuries, while tracing the passage and impact of the people, cultures, opinions and events that have shaped the nation. As a quick reference or a fascinating armchair journey through the American past, the Routledge Atlases of American History are invaluable not only for students and teachers, but for anyone interested in the history of the United States.

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 colorful maps and charts, this important new work documents milestones in the evolution of the social and political rights of women. Coverage includes the rise of reform movements such as temperance, women's suffrage, and abolition during the 19th century, and contraception, abortion rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment in the 20th.