Welcome to History Compass™ & Discovery Enterprises
Publishers of U.S. History Primary Source Materials
Real People. Real Stories.™
We are pleased to offer you our collection of primary source-based U.S. history books, plays, and guides. Filled with original documents – letters, photographs, journal entries, maps, broadsheets, essays, newspaper accounts, and illustrations – each book tells stories through firsthand accounts of life, struggle, hardship, victory, and success in our nation's history.
Our goal is to provide you stories, compelling and true, that give insight into our nation's history. We aim to publish carefully selected, well-researched books that help us better understand our past, give us context for the present, and shed light on our future. We are excited about the opportunity to share our enjoyment of history with you.
We invite you to look over our extensive collection.
The History Compass™ Perspectives on History series contains firsthand accounts from colonists to astronauts. The 75 volumes rely on journals, letters, essays, poems, newspaper accounts, advertisements, songs, cartoons, maps, illustrations, and photos.
Representative titles include Life in the American Colonies, Indians of the Southwest, The Underground Railroad, The Lowell Mill Girls, and The Vietnam War. Other volumes cover the immigrant experience, America at war, the civil rights movement, technology development, and political and religious history. With many of the books containing firsthand accounts from teenagers, the materials engage today's students. Accounts from women and minorities highlight the diversity of American history. Educator Guides available. Ages 12-Adult.
The Researching American History series, designed for less experienced historians, provides vocabulary guides and summary sections in each book alongside the primary source materials. This 25 volume series covers the sweep of American history, from The Colonies and A Century of Westward Expansion through Children at Work and The Civil Rights Movement to A Nation of Inventors and World War II. Grades 5-10, ESL, and citizenship exam review.
Our classroom plays, like The Underground Railroad and The Way West, give students a chance to participate, ask questions, and understand events within historical contexts. For reading or production, the plays include numerous speaking parts and are reproducible for the classroom.
The Adventures in History line of lively historical
fictions includes books like Out of the Ordinary, the story of Julia (based on
the author's grandmother), who lived near the mining town of Ludlow, Colorado in
the early 20th century, and The Monkey's Constitution, about a 12-year-old powder monkey aboard the U.S.S. Constitution ("enthusiastically recommended" by the Captain of the U.S.S. Constitution).
Please take a look at our Curriculum Guides for Social
Studies and Language Arts as well as our teacher's guides.
Please give us a call and let us know what you think about our books. We welcome your suggestions and enjoy hearing from you.