Describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing.

A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.

Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.

"For a long time, most people believed that Christopher Columbus was the first explorer to 'discover' America--the first to make a successful round-trip voyage across the Atlantic. But in recent years, as new evidence has come to light, our understanding of history has changed. We know now that Columbus was among the last explorers to reach the Americas, not the first"--Book jacket.

"Examines World War I, the first global war in which modern weapons inflicted mass slaughter and an estimated 20 million people were killed."--Amazon.com.

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Text and contemporary photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Recounts the history of the vaqueros in the Spanish New World who mastered the art of cow herding and taught it to the inexperienced settlers of the American West three hundred years later.

Historical photographs with explanatory text present a picture of life in the American West from 1840 to the early 1900s.

Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.