WITNESS TO AMERICA: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM ITS DISCOVERY TO MODERN TIMES
edited by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins (Lou Reda Productions/Barnes and Noble Books, 1227 pages, $15.95).Originally published in 1949 as The Heritage of America, this classic work comprises more than 250 first-hand narrativeswritten by famous figures as diverse as Cotton Mather (1663-1728) and William T. Sherman (1820-91), and examines everyimportant aspect of U.S. history through the end of World War II.
