Follows the life and career of the statesman who, after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, became the seventeenth president of the United States.
In the early morning hours of July 11, 1804, two men stood facing each other on a New Jersey cliff side. One was the U.S. vice president, Aaron Burr, and the other was Alexander Hamilton, the secretary of the treasury. They were ready to fight to the death for honor.
Stagecoaches and the Pony Express (American Adventure)
by Sally Senzell Isaacs
An account of the most widely-used delivery systems in the nineteenth-century United States, stagecoaches and the Pony Express, discussing their development and challenges faced during their growth.
California Gold Rush Cooking (Exploring History Through Simple Recipes)
by Lisa Golden Schroeder
Life on the Lower East Side (Picture the Past)
by Jennifer Blizin Gillis
An overview of everyday life in New York City's Lower East Side from 1870 to 1913, focusing on the communities formed by people who shared a common language, religion, and/or cultural traditions.
The Emancipation Proclamation (At Issue in History)
by Maria L Howell
One Nation Again/Sourcebk-Cw (American Albums from the Collections of the Library of Congr)
by Unknown
On February 23, 1836, general and dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and a Mexican force of more than 2,000 men launched an assault against Colonel William B. Travis of Texas, his army of 155 men, and 15 civilians who were living in the fort known as the Alamo. The Texans, who were reinforced by 32 men by March 1, withstood the Mexican army until March 6. That day, the 187 Texan defenders perished in the hand-to-hand combat, including American frontiersmen Davy Crockett and James Bowie, and 60...
Follow the lives of the March sisters, who are forced to pull together when their father leaves to fight in the war. But will the girls cope when disaster strikes and their mother has to leave too, or will their changing world pull them apart? This edition, written by Katie Dale has all the warmth of Louisa May Alcott's original classic. Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap b...
Reading Expeditions (Social Studies: Voices from America's Past): Our Journey West (Voices from America's Past)
by National Geographic Learning
Describes the events surrounding the bloody confrontation between Union and Confederate troops in the Maryland countryside on September 17, 1862.
Robert E. Lee (Childhood of Famous Americans (Pb))
by Helen Albee Monsell
The Transcontinental Railroad (American History)
by Therese Harasymiw
Provides a short history of the Battle of Gettysburg and the commemorative address President Lincoln made there during the Civil War.
The Stormy Adventure of Abbie Burgess, Lighthouse Keeper (History's Kid Heroes)
by Connie Roop and Peter Roop
Meet the Allens in Whaling Days (Early American Family)
by John J. Loeper
Mary Todd Lincoln (Childhood of Famous Americans)
by Katharine E Wilkie
Asian-Americans in Old West (Cornerstones of Freedom )
by Gail Sakurai
Describes the important role of the Chinese, Japanese, and other Asians in the settlement of the American West.
This series examines political demarcations that have occurred around the world.