Books in Understanding World History series

As America fought the war in Vietnam, other conflicts were brewing at home. African Americans and other minorities demanded civil rights, women demanded equal pay and young people demanded the right to demonstrate on college campuses. The 1960s represented an era of change as new frontiers in space were conquered while on the ground, free love, rock n roll and drug abuse dominated American culture.

During the fourteenth century, Europe was attacked by a pestilence known as the Black Death. Highly contagious and usually fatal, the Black Death swept through much of the continent in waves, killing up to a third of the population and dramatically changing the way the survivors lived their lives and thought about the world. The Black Death had an impact on European culture, politics, and society that lasted well beyond the years of the pestilence itself.

The Great Depression of the 1930s was the worst financial disaster ever to strike the United States. This book explains the events, economic practices,and social attitudes that helped bring about the Stock Market Crash of October 29, 1929, it describes in vivid detail what life was like for Americansduring the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Days, and it also outlines the legacy of the Great Depression--how it affected those who lived through it and those generations that have followed.

The war in Afghanistan, launched after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, was Americas longest and perhaps least-talked about war. The War in Afghanistan provides context and clarity concerning the U.S. militarys initial success in Afghanistan, the Taliban resurgence, the Surge, and the impact of the war on Americans, American soldiers, and average Afghans.