"A complete visual package." --Booklist, starred reviewOn a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions specks of dust to form a duster--a savage storm--on America's high southern plains.The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow--people got lost in the gloom and suffocated... and that was just the beginning.Don Brown brings the Dirty Th...
Western Grt Lks (Dis Am) (Pbk)(Oop) (Discovering America)
by Virginia L Aylesworth and Thomas G Aylesworth
Anti-Semitism (Spotlight on Immigration and Migration)
by Dava Pressberg
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 Hispanic Struggle for Social Justice
by James Cockroft and James D Cockcroft
Native People Native Lands
Stone Circle Stories: Culture and Folktales (Set) (Stone Circle Stories: Culture and Folktales)
Back in 1909, not far from Jackson, Mississippi, Dr. Laurence Clifton Jones opened a special place for orphans named Piney Woods Country Life School. Dr. Jones loved music and wanted the children to love it too. In 1939 he started a school band that was just for girls, and he called it the Sweethearts. The music the girls played was called swing. It had rhythms and melodies that got people up on their feet to dance. And like all good music, it told stories about how it feels to be alive. After...
Husker Numbers (Count Your Way Across the U.S.A. (Hardcover))
by Rajean Luebs Shepherd
The Empire State Building (Lightning Bolt Books (R) -- Famous Places) (Lightning Bolt Books Famous Places)
by Lisa Bullard
Lucent Library of Black History: Set 2 (Lucent Library of Black History)
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...
Gives an overview of the state of Ohio, including its history, geography, people, and living conditions.
Southeast Indians (First Nations of North America)
by Andrew Santella
Native Peoples of California (Native Peoples of North America)
by Barbara Linde
When the Spanish began colonizing California in the late 1700s, there were more than 300,000 native peoples living there. By 1860, their population had been cut down to 30,000 by the European diseases they were unprepared to fight, poverty, and other hardships. In this book, readers learn about the traditional culture of the native peoples of California, including the time period before European and American settlement as well as its influence on these groups. Full-color photographs and historic...