(3) 4-6 America's Living History series. Archival photographs, maps, and sidebars combine with dry but informative texts to provide introductions to voting rights or prohibition. Highlighting key events and figures, these titles portray the historical periods, the movements' successes and failures, and their lasting impacts. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these America's Living History titles: Women Win the Vote and Teetotalers and Saloon Smashers.

Reviewer: Tamara DePasquale

(4) YA Colonial Settlements in America series. Each volume describes the founding and early years of a colonial settlement, three that were Spanish in origin and one (New Amsterdam) that was Dutch. All the requisite supporting materials are present: maps, reproductions, informative captions, and some especially engaging sidebar-style essays. The books require patient, determined readers who are capable of absorbing sentences packed with highly specific details. Reading list, timeline, websites. Bib., ind. Review covers these Colonial Settlements in America titles: New Amsterdam, Santa Fe, St. Augustine, and Yerba Buena.

Reviewer: Amy Lois Cohn