Rourke Discovery Library (Paperback)
5 total works
A simple introduction to the history of New Amsterdam, from its establishment by the Dutch until its conquest by the English in 1664.
A simple description of the 1773 event known as the Boston Tea Party, at which American colonists dumped English tea into the sea rather than pay taxes on it.
A simple description of how, during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key came to write the poem that became the national anthem.