Overview :Primed for Stardom is a first-person account of the experience of having your New York City life considered for use on a reality show and th... Read More
Overview :My main rule was that I wouldn't be called "Mista" I thought the students would show me respect if they identified me as a person and not ju... Read More
Overview :Perhaps no other person could ever achieve the preeminent position in American history and culture occupied by George Washington. Born in 17... Read More
Overview :Few Americans have had the profound impact on our nation as did Jefferson, and even fewer left such a wealth of sage advice. Jefferson, a ta... Read More
Overview :Born in 1755 on a small Caribbean island to unmarried parents, Alexander Hamilton did not enjoy the privileges of wealth or heredity by whic... Read More
Overview :From an upstart Ulster County militia officer to "Pharaoh of New York" and vice president under both Jefferson and Madison, George Clinton c... Read More
Overview :A collection of forty brief essays accompanied by carefully selected excerpts from John Adams' and Thomas Jefferson's letters, diaries, and ... Read More
Overview :Ending in mid-September 1787, the Constitutional Convention recommended that the state legislatures call conventions elected by the people t... Read More
Overview :Thomas Paine was the quintessential revolutionary. No other person captured so well the explosiveness of the last quarter of the eighteenth ... Read More
Overview :For a quarter of a century between 1763 and 1788, Americans intensely debated the nature of government and the need to protect individual li... Read More
Overview :Writing to his dear friend John Adams from Paris in August 1787, Thomas Jefferson referred to the then-meeting Constitutional Convention as ... Read More
Overview :"I never indeed thought him an honest, frank-dealing man, but considered him as a crooked gun, or other perverted machine, whose aim or stro... Read More
Overview :Virginia provided American with much of its intellectual and political leadership throughout the Revolutionary era. That leadership, however... Read More