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Real People. Real Stories.™
Publishers of Primary Source-Based U.S. History Books
We are pleased to offer you our collection of primary source-based U.S. history books, historical fiction, and guides. Filled with original documents – letters, photographs, journal entries, maps, broadsheets, 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.
What's New
Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968: We Shall Overcome, Some Day (2nd Edition)
by Mitch Yamasaki
Through a collection of original source documents and the words of those who lived through the era, Civil Rights Movement gives insight into the historic background and significant events of the struggle for equal rights. Professor Mitch Yamasaki examines the context of the movement, and carefully selected materials highlight the history and the legal, political, social, and cultural effects of desegregation, white resistance, the Montgomery bus boycotts, the Little Rock Nine, Freedom Rides, voting rights struggles, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Black Power, and more.
The popular Perspectives on History series contains compelling firsthand accounts from colonists to astronauts and is widely used as supplemental material in the study of history and literature in grades 6-12 and at the college level as well as an attractive offering for historic site and museum visitors. |
The innovative Researching American History series, designed for less experienced students and as an attractive offering for historic site and museum visitors, introduces our nation's history through compelling firsthand accounts and primary source materials. |
The Adventures in History line combines lively fiction with vivid historical details. Each well-written tale gives insight into the era or topic because of the adherence to historical accuracy. |
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The Manhattan Project: A Secret Wartime Mission by Kenneth M. Deitch Compelling firsthand accounts from the inventors of the first atomic bomb describe the Manhattan Project. Additional accounts from scientists, reporters, and soldiers, among other primary sources, describe the development of the bomb and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Selections include those from Einstein, Oppenheimer, Groves, Tibbets, William Laurence, John Hersey, and Enrico and Laura Fermi. |
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Northern Migration and the Harlem Renaissance by JoAnne Weisman Deitch The migration of over six million Southern blacks to the Northeast and Midwest had a tremendous impact on life in the U.S. Leaving natural disasters, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, and racism, they were soon confronted by new problems and challenges in the North. At the same time, many African Americans came together in the arts, centered in Harlem, with a spirit of hope and pride. This volume presents the philosophies of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey, along with excerpts from Zora Neale Hurston, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes, and more. |
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Seaman's Adventures with Lewis and Clark by Duncan Brown This easy reader tells of adventures encountered by Lewis and Clark on their voyage of discovery and by Seaman, the dog who went along. At the end of the book the reader has the opportunity to tell or write a few words of his or her own, relating to an adventure on the way back. Grades K-2. |