While Henry Adams is best known today for his autobiographical Education, he was also the author of the monumental History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, first published in nine volumes from 1889 to 91. Judged one of the great historical works in English—and yet out of print for several decades—the complete history is now available in two volumes as part of The Library of America series. Edited by Earl N. Harbert, a professor at Northeastern University and Adams authority, the history traces the development of American nationality through Jefferson's two terms and to the War of 1812. With access to hitherto secret archives in Europe, Adams was able to infuse his history with scenes of intimacy as no previous historian had done. The Library of America presents the collected works of America's foremost authors in a uniform cloth series, and the Adams volumes are a handsome addition to this series [$27.50 per volume]. The early history of this country is also the subject of Catherine Drinker Bowen's Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787, a classic recounting of the stormy, dramatic session that produced the most enduring of political documents—and whose 200th anniversary is being celebrated this year. First published in 1966, the new edition of historian Bowen's work has a foreword by former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger [Atlantic-Little Brown $8.95 paper]. A more tragic era of this nation's history is described in John Richard Dennett's The South As It Is, 1865—1866, a collection of articles that first appeared in the pages of The Nation. Dennett's first dispatch was written from Richmond only three months after Lee's surrender, and in the months that followed he traveled throughout the ravaged South. Georgia has reprinted his reports in a new edition with an introduction by Henry M. Christman [$12. 50 paper]. Georgia also has a new edition of Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, a work first put together by the Savannah unit of the Georgia Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration during the Great Depression. With a new introduction by folklore specialist Charles Joyner, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks living on the Georgia coast in the 1930's [$25.00 cloth, $9.95 paper). An earlier—and quite different— aspect of Southern society is recounted by Daniel Blake Smith in Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society, a new edition of which has been published by Cornell [S10.95 paper]. Two recent Bison Books are respectively. Dee Brown's. The Galvanized Yankees, an account of the Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps to serve in the Union army in the West [$7.95 paper] : and Catherine Gibson Fougera's With Custer's Cavalry, an army wife's description of life in the West before and after General George A. Custer's famous last stand [$29.95 cloth, $7.95 paper]. A recent addition to Harper & How's Perennial Library series is a revised and enlarged edition of John F. Kennedy's A Nation of Immigrants, an essay on the immigrant experience in America. It was written while Kennedy was president and ultimately led to the Immigration Bill of 1965. The new edition has a preface by John P. Roche. Kennedy's colleague and longtime friend [$5.95]. Perennial Library has also reprinted two enduring popular histories by journalist and editor Frederick Lewis Allen, being respectively . Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, covering the period from Sept.3, 1929 to Sept.3.1939 ($7.95). and The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900—1950 [$6.95]. A new Vintage Book is J. Anthony Lukas' Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, an account of the school integration controversy in Boston, which won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize [$9.95]. Recent Touchstone Books include these: The Progressive Movement, 1900—1915, a collection of documents from the period, edited and with an introduction by Richard Hofstadter [$6.95]; William J. Broad's Star Warriors: A Penetrating Look into the Lives of the Young Scientists behind Our Space Age Weaponry, a work which won a 1985 Pulitzer Prize for journalism [$8.95]; Leon Litwack's The American Labor Movement, a history of a prime force for change in 20th-century America [$6.95]; Lester C. Thurow's The Zero Sum Solution: An Economic and Political Agenda for the 80's, a prescription for what the U.S. must do to remain a world-class economy [$8.95] and Daniel Ford's Melt-Down, a revised and updated edition of The Cult of the Atom, a history—and an indictment—of the nuclear power industry [$6.95].