Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (Little House)
by William Anderson
While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Emma finds herself as a runaway slave using the Underground Railroad to make her way to freedom in Canada.
Plains Indian Wars (America at War) (America at War (Chelsea House))
by Sherry Marker
Greed, misunderstanding, and resentment characterized the relationship between early white settlers moving west and the Native American peoples of the Great Plains. As whites delved further into western territory, the U.S. government attempted to quell Native Americans' fears by signing treaties with various tribes, guaranteeing their rights and freedoms. However, almost every treaty was eventually broken by the settlers and the army, leading to distrust. The series of bloody confrontations tha...
The Development of U.S. Industry (Explorer Library: Language Arts Explorer) (Language Arts Explorer: History Digs)
by Mary Meinking
This is the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was captured in the United States and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Drawing from primary source documents, including Northup's own memoir, this compelling book has a narrative that is packed with the action of Solomon's 12 - year odyssey as a slave and historical perspective on the human experience of buying and selling human beings. Period artwork is included to given even more historical context to this stunning st...
Andrew Johnson (History of the Civil War)
by Cathy East Dubowski and Thomas A Durwood
Surveys the political career and private life of the only president ever to be impeached.
This exciting series provides students with gracefully written narratives about important aspects of the black experience in the United States. Blending original documents written by participants and observers with an insightful analysis of different periods in American history, each volume provides young readers with an understanding of the broad issues that this country faced as well as the daily struggles of ordinary African-American men and women.Quotations and information from primary sourc...
Lewis and Clark and Exploring the Louisiana Purchase (Primary Sources of Westward Expansion)
by Alicia Klepeis
The Mexican-American War (On Deck Reading Libraries: Westward Ho! ) (Reading Power: Westward Ho!)
by Emily Raabe
Describes the causes, progress, leaders, and results of the Mexican-American War.
Team Time Machine: The New Nation (Team Time Machine: The New Nation)
The Chumash and Their History (We the People (Compass Point Books Hardcover))
by Natalie M Rosinsky
Tells the story of the Spanish colonization of California and the establishment of a system of missions there in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Going West! Journey on a Wagon Train to Settle a Frontier Town (Kaleidoscope Kids Books )
by Carol Johmann and Elizabeth Rieth
John Sutter (Primary Sources of Famous People in American History) (Grandes Personajes en la Historia de los Estados Unidos)
by Chris Hayhurst
Surveys the life of Swiss/German immigrant John Sutter, on whose land gold was discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, spurring the California gold rush and westward expansion.
In this engaging nonfiction title, readers will learn about the War of 1812, the causes of it, and how it affected American citizens. Through detailed images, stunning facts, and easy to read text, readers are introduced to ideas and events that took place during this time, including embargoes, the Treaty of Paris, the War Hawks, and the Treaty of Ghent. Readers will have the opportunity to further enhance their understanding of the content through an accessible table of contents and glossary.
Kid's Life During the Westward Expansion (How Kids Lived)
by Sara Machajewski and Sarah Machajewski
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women's basketball game, earning national attention and putting women's basketball on the map.