The Making of America

One volume of a six-volume work pertaining to colonial history. The author is particularly concerned with the legacy the European colonists brought to America.

Development of Davisville, a farm community, into the city of Davis, Calif. and the U.C. Davis University campus, with brief biographies on community leaders such as George Washington Pierce.

Few Americans in the early 1800s dreamed that the next two decades would see a growth in tensions that would lead to civil war. War did come, and during the succeeding century that was, its causes, its military history, and its aftermath, have been endlessly fascinating to Americans. The stakes of power, which won an Anthenacum of Philadelhia book award in 1961, is an account of this period.