Researching American History

This anthology includes brief biographical information and a few choice words from several of our nation’s Founders, including John Adams, Aaron Burr, John Dickinson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington. Abigail Adams is also quoted.

ISBN: 1-57960-097-2      Price: $8.95      Pages: 52     

View Details  

Quantity:       

This anthology includes brief biographical information and a few choice words from several of our nation’s Founders, including John Adams, Aaron Burr, John Dickinson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington. Abigail Adams is also quoted.

ISBN: 1-57960-064-6      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity:       

A brief history of working conditions experienced by the young people of our country, with a focus on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Recollections, photos, and commentary from social reformers, mill girls, canallers, "newsies," child stars, and others are included.

ISBN: 1-57960-065-4      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity:       

This book focuses on legislation, events, and leaders for civil rights for African Americans and other minorities in the mid-20th century. A special section at the end of the book offers an important essay from the American Psychological Association on hate crimes in modern society.

ISBN: 1-57960-081-6      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity:       

This volume focuses on the causes of the war, camp life of the Union and Confederate troops, and the hardships faced by the soldiers and the general public. Several Civil War songs are included, along with photos by Mathew Brady and other early photo-journalists.

ISBN: 1-57960-071-9      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity:       

This volume on the American colonies features the arduous journey, the struggle for religious freedom, relations with Native Americans, health and medicine, and crime and punishment. Each document is summarized and has a vocabulary list. At the back of the book are suggested research activities and evaluation forms for analyzing written and graphic documents.

ISBN: 1-57960-060-3      Price: $8.95      Pages: 55     

View Details  

Quantity:       

A history of communications, from the Colonial period to the present.

ISBN: 1-57960-099-9      Price: $8.95      Pages: 52     

View Details  

Quantity:       

An excellent summary of the United States Constitution and the philosophy behind it, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights presents the foundation documents for the United States government, as told through the original documents and words of the framers.  This volume includes background material, summaries of the important Articles and Amendments, vocabulary, activities, and comparison with the Iroquois Constitution.  Students gain an understanding of the issues involved in the creation and ratification of the Constitution as well as the guarantees of the Bill of Rights and their continuing significance. 

ISBN: 978-1-57960-069-7      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity:       

This collection of essays and documents about the Declaration of Independence includes writings from John Locke, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, John Dickinson, Benjamin Franklin, and Abigail and John Adams among others. There are also excerpts from the Declaration of Woman's Rights, an 1857 speech by Abraham Lincoln, and the 1970 Black Declaration of Independence. Good review for U.S. citizenship exam.

ISBN: 1-57960-070-0      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity:       

From Hoover's early warnings to the end of the Great Depression, this volume concentrates on the challenges the average citizen faced in his daily life, with the strong determination to keep his family and home together. Letters, journals, eyewitness accounts, songs, jokes, excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath, and photographs bring this remarkable chapter in America's history to life.

ISBN: 1-57960-067-0      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity:       

Personal memoirs and photos relating to Ellis Island, the Port of Galveston, and Angel Island about immigration from the mid-1800s to the early years of the 20th century. Excerpts include the accounts of Russian Jews, Irish, Greeks, Italians, Chinese, Swedes, and Lithuanians. Historic photos from Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine and others are included, as well as poetry, songs, and graphs.

ISBN: 1-57960-073-5      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity:       

In this anthology, the reader will look at some of the battles from East to West and North to South, arranged chronologically. Included are excerpts from treaties, transcribed histories from Wampum belts, journals, diaries, newspaper accounts, graphics, and more, regarding the Indian Wars from the colonial period through the 1890s.

ISBN: 1-57960-087-5      Price: $8.95      Pages: 60     

View Details  

Quantity:       

An introduction to a few of the greatest inventors from each century in American history, the public's reaction to their innovations, and how their inventions changed the course of history. Included are Jefferson, Franklin, McCormick, Whitney, Eads, Bell, Edison, Glidden, Morse, Latimer, Hollerith, Berners-Lee, and others.

ISBN: 1-57960-077-8      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity:       

Explore a variety of tribal creation myths, family life, relocation to reservations, great Native American leaders, through oral histories and written and graphic documents. These excerpts include information about several different tribes in various regions of the country, with research suggestions and activities.

ISBN: 1-57960-063-8      Price: $8.95      Pages: 56     

View Details  

Quantity: