Presents more than twenty firsthand accounts of the Great Depression, covering urban and rural aspects of the era and various programs of the New Deal, and also includes an introductory overview, a chronology, and a bibliography.

Presents twenty-two eyewitness accounts of events in the Nazi death camps, covering arrivals at the camps, work detail, survival and daily life, confrontation of death, the perspectives of Germans, and liberation.

Greehaven Press's History Firsthand series explores major events in world history through eyewitness accounts.

Uses eyewitness accounts, contemporary narratives, and personal anecdotes to present a portrait of black abolitionists and reformers. The term civil rights movement calls to mind the nation-wide effort, spearheaded by Martin Luther King Jr., during the 1950s and 1960s to end racial segregation and racial injustice in the United States. But the struggle for citizenship rights for African Americans predates King's movement by almost two hundred years....