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Product Description This is the continuing story of the growth of New Haven from the time our nation won its independence from England to the outbreak of the Civil War. After the Revolutionary War, an angry England no longer supplied essential goods for the young nation. Possibilities for inventing new things and earning great profits seemed endless. Yankee ingenuity went to work. New inventions made life easier for people. Many small industries developed, and by the beginning of the 19th century larger industries manufactured goods that were eagerly purchased in Europe and the United States. Trade increased and the city prospered. Although there were some difficult times, it seemed that New Haveners could not be stopped. But beneath a self-satisfied society, loomed the lurking problems of race and slavery that would lead to the Civil War. Review The structure and clarity of Vision in the Sky and From Puritans to Yankees and the shape of their in this corner of the land. argumnet really add up to a kind of epic of American history. --Dr. Charled Hill, Yale University Myrna Kagan has demonstrated a marvelous civic vision with her superb texts Vision in the Sky and From Puritans to Yankees written to provide students and adult readers with a compelling and succinct account of the history of this city and the people who made it....We applaud Mrs. Kagan's enthusiasm and skilfull writing.... nothing like this has ever been available before. --Dr. William Hosley, Director, New Haven Museum and Historical Society [Myrna Kagan] is well known in New Haven for her many activities and support of educational endeavors. She has researched here in the Whitney Library as she wrote both of these volumes. I believe her publications are quite good, and I regularly recommend them to students, teachers and others interested in New Haven history. --James Campbell, Librarian and Curator of Manuscripts, The Whitney Library, New Haven Museum