The Serial set
Subtitle: its make-up and content
By: lead author and editor, Andrea Sevetson ; chapter authors, Mary Lou Cumberpatch [and 17 others]
Contributors: Cumberpatch, Mary Lou
Publisher: ProQuest
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bethesda, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781602053465
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Sources; History; Government publications; United States congressional serial set
Description: The United States Congressional Serial Set is commonly referred to as the Serial Set which contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports. The Serial Set is probably the most important series of publications on all aspects of American life from 1789-present. Its thousands of volumes are filled with fascinating historical reports, stunning illustrations and maps, and mountains of statistics and data. The Serial Set tells the story of the United States using primary source documents. This book is divided into two sections. The first section discusses the physical makeup (maps, illustrations, etc.) and the different document types in the Serial Set. The second section contains essays focused on different subject areas in the Serial Set.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Serial set : the big picture ; Survey of maps in the serial set / Andrea Sevetson; title: Art in the serial set / Diane H. Smith; title: Agriculture / Liza Weisbrod; title: American labor, banking upheavals and the creation of money and the Fed / Richard J. McKinney; title: The Bureau of American Ethnology and the Serial set / James J. Sheehy and Helen M. Sheehy; title: Civil War and Reconstruction / Virginia Laas; title: Constitutional amendments / Jan Oberla; title: Western American exploration in the Serial set / Ron Tyler; title: The survey of the coast / Mary Lou Cumberpatch; title: The United States 1789-present : its changing place in the world / Catherine Jervey Johnson and Marianne Ryan; title: Science and technology in the Serial set through 1920 / Barbara Levergood; title: Strange bedfellows : radical groups and other organizations / Charles A. Seavey; title: Social justice issues / Ellen Gilmore and Michael Levy; title: Controversies and scandals / Daniel C. Draper and August A. Imholtz, Jr.; title: The wild and wacky world of the Serial set / Diane H. Smith.