Early Times Series
Early Times is a series written for middle school students about major cultures of the past—from ancient times to the dawn of the twentieth century. Each volume focuses upon unique aspects of daily life as well as major innovations and creative achievements of a given people. Portraits of key figures of history—pharaohs, kings, emperors, philosophers, playwrights, artists, and poets—come alive as the story of their civilization unfolds.

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Essentials of American History © 2002
Survey to review the whole course of US history in preparation for the AP exam. Effectively condensed yet complete enough to eliminate the need to constantly refer back to a basal text. Short, concise, and all inclusive.
136 pages | Softcover

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Hellas: A Short History of Classical Greek Civilization and its Predecessors © 1999
This broadly-based history offers a new look at the origins of western civilization and highlights the changes that transpired in Greece between 1200 BC and the ascendancy of Rome. Interspersed throughout the text are translated primary sources and brief accounts of what was occurring in the rest of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East during the classical period.
216 pages | Softcover

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Rome: Empire without End © 2002
The companion volume to HELLAS, this narrative describes the triumphs and disasters of the ancient Romans. Topics include exciting military campaigns, the Romans’ constitution, and social issues including the role of women. Finally, the text reveals how new ideas from abroad became the tangled background to the fall of the Republic.
150  pages | Softcover

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Japan: A Short History © 1989
The text’s well-written and comprehensive narrative is interspersed throughout with direct sources, allowing high school students to formulate sound generalizations about the Japanese experience and to test those currently popular in Western society.
291 pages | Softcover

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Voices & Masks – the Experience of Nineteenth Century Mill Girls and Enslaved Women  © 2000
Using primary sources, this text focuses on the experience of New England’s nineteenth century mill girls and enslaved black women of the antebellum South. The documents and writings of the mill girls reveal how they transformed themselves from being a source of cheap labor for the textile industry to independent women capable of assuming a prominent role in society. Denied writing, enslaved women are shown to have carved out their identities in more hidden or private ways.
223 pages | softcover

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