Books in the Documents in American Social History series

His Life and Adventures offer an inside account of the brawling racism common in the early nineteenth century and sharply detail the rowdy male subculture of the times.... History of My Own Times is one of the few first-person accounts of a rural artisan in pre-genteel America.

In this book a rich selection of documents captures the work experience of ordinary, previously anonymous New Yorkers in the early years of the republic.

In this book a rich selection of documents captures the work experience of ordinary, previously anonymous New Yorkers in the early years of the republic.

In 1892 the U.S. Census Printing Office published a report on the Six Nations in New York State which collected evidence still used today by the Six Nations to defend their legal rights. The 1892 census purported to be an objective report on the...

American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was...