These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources provides insight into the scale and complexities of terrorism across a sweeping landscape of time, geography, act, and motive.

Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents - speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art - as well as overview information that places each document in context.

Entries are organized into chapters that feature a general overview of the chapter's subtopic. The following standard subheads are included in each entry: Date, Source, About the Author, Introduction, Primary Source, Significance, Further Resources.