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The wildly diverse regions in these heartland states make them perfect for family vacations. From the museums, exciting sporting events, and deep-dish pizzas of Chicago to the isolated cabins and historic B&Bs of Indiana’s Amish country, this guide offers savvy tips for sightseeing and activities, complete with driving guides, scenic routes, and easy-to-read maps. Photos and illustrations. Maps and charts.

Travelers will behold all that the city by the bay contains with the hip Moon Metro San Francisco. This sleek guide profiles the best of the city, combining selective listings of the hottest sights, shops, restaurants, amusements, and hotels with vivid color photos, graphics, and discreet, laminated, fold-out maps detailing all the must-see neighborhoods. Vacationers can bask in the luxury of the Mark Hopkins hotel and stroll through Golden Gate Park, dine on cuisine in North Beach, or catch a view of Alcatraz from Nob Hill. Moon Metro San Francisco leads the visitor to the city’s top sights as well as the places only the locals know about. Clean, concise, and compact, Moon Metro San Francisco is the definitive guide to the most-visited city in the U.S.

Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, ‘The American Journey’ introduces readers to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. This new edition focuses more closely on the theme of the American journey, showing that our attempt to live up to and with our ideals is an ongoing process that has become ever more inclusive of different groups and ideas. Covering the 1600s to the Civil War, prominent coverage is given to the West and the South, and the book highlights the importance of religion in American history. Hundreds of maps, graphs, and illustrations help readers absorb history and bring it to life. For those interested in a comprehensive study of U.S. history to the Civil War given in a flowing, lively narrative.

Documents Latino cultural history in the United States from pre-Colonial times to the present, in a reference that is presented in an accessible question-and-answer format covering a wide range of topics, from immigration and literature to politics and the arts. Original. 35,000 first printing.

This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in American history through readings that reflect a variety of viewpoints. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. The Taking Sides readers feature annotated listings of selected World Wide Web sites. Taking Sides is supported by our student Web site, Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/).

A team of distinguished historians probes beyond popular anecdotes and conventional wisdom to offer a fascinating look at Lincoln’s relationship with his five key generals, McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman and Grant. This brilliant portrait takes us inside the individual relationships that shaped the course of our most costly war.

An oversized, lavishly illustrated volume for history buffs traces the 1865 military trial of eight people accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln and other high officials. By the author of Manhunt. 50,000 first printing.

Bacon’s study centers upon the engrossing portraits of five immigrant families, each one a complex tapestry woven from the distinctive voices of family members. Attended by extensive field work among community organizations and analysis of ethnic media, Bacon exposes the interplay between the dense social interactions of family life, the primary locus of the experience of ‘Indianness, ‘ and the stylized rhetoric of ‘Indianness’ that emanates from the world of voluntary associations and the ethnic press. This inventive analysis suggests that the process of assimilation which these families undergo parallels that experienced by anyone who conceives of him or herself as a member of a distinctive community in search of a place in American society.

Women’s America is the most widely used anthology of American women’s history. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into four sections which cover the span of women’s experiences in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. Each of the roughly 90 articles and legal documents presented is prefaced with a brief headnote describing the piece’s significance and historical context. This edition has been extensively revised and contains 34 new documents, including several original essays written specifically for this edition.