Risjord (emeritus history, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) contributes to the series looking at history through biographies by focusing on people active approximately from 1880 to 1920. He pairs John D. Rock
Biographical sketches of key figures of the Civil War era create a composite portrait of the US during and immediately after the Civil War. Sketches of Stephen A. Douglas and Frederick Douglas provide
Like the preceeding books in The Representative Americans series, The Romantics makes history human by putting tissue on the skeletal framework of names and dates. It treats people whose principal con
Taking a biographical approach to the colonial period of American history, Risjord (University of Wisconsin-Madison) sketches fifteen figures at once sympathetic to modern readers and in some sense ex
