Books in Rosen Classroom Primary Source series

The Old West vividly comes alive through the story of the infamous James Butler Wild Bill Hickok. Readers will relive the classic Western gunfight as Hickok guns down a fellow gambler in Springfield, Missouri's town square. A staple of Old Western fiction, this public rivalry reveals the true code of the West--with sharpshooting Wild Bill as its main attraction.

This book, crafted using the latest New York State academic research and standards, explores how geographic factors and natural resources available in New York State influenced its growth and development. • From the first Native American inhabitants to today, and from the Great Lakes to the Adirondack Mountains, this volume examines how New York’s unique landscape and natural resources helped shape the development of the state. • Primary source documents, full-color photographs, and maps help readers understand how New York’s residents have used the resources available to them, and how we still use them today.

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln was its first president. After the Civil War, as the Democratic Party foundered, party platforms shifted back and forth with the Republicans and Democrats battling over reconstruction of the South, civil rights, political corruption, and the power of big business over immigrants and the working poor.

Founded in 1792 by Thomas Jefferson as the party of the common man, the Democratic Party dominated American politics until the 1850s. At a time when the Civil War about to erupt, the issue of slavery tore the country apart. The Democratic Party, with its large southern vote, could not weather the storm and tore apart as well. By the turn of the 20th century, the Democratic Party regained its focus and led the way into the next century in the fight for women's suffrage and civil rights.