Discusses the importance of the Mayflower Compact to the Pilgrims because they were beginning a democracy in the New World.

The Mayflower Compact is the first document to promise just and equal laws for all" in the New World. Here is the story of those men, women, and children that signed the compact.

Biographies of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.

Encourages students to think about the questions raised and form their own opinions.

Published for the New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the US Constitution. Eighteen highly readable essays focus on the most important documents of America's colonial and revolutionary past, accompanied by the complete text of each document, from the Mayflower Compact to the Bill of Rights. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The definitive volume on globalization from a comparative politics perspective

Presents an encyclopedia of religion and politics in America including short biographies of important political and religious figures like Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, and synopses of religious entities like the Branch Davidians and the Episcopal church as well as important court cases of relevancy like Epperson et al. v. Arkansas having to do with evolution.