Provides an overview of the politics, business, scientific discoveries, arts, and lifestyles of the last century, decade by decade.
Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.
Trapped Behind Nazi Lines (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories) (Narrative Nonfiction)
by Eric Braun
In the midst of World War II, a group of Army Air Force medical workers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines after surviving a plane crash. What followed were two months of sheer terror. Vivid details bring to light how they survived and the emotions they faced on a daily basis. Primary-source quotes bring the story to life.
John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in California’s Salinas River Valley. Although he worked briefly as a reporter in New York, it was in the Salinas Valley that he spent the Depression years, and his experiences and the people he met became the basis for his books. Of Mice and Men opened the eyes of the public to the desperate lives of the migrant workers. The Grapes of Wrath told the story of the destitute Oklahoma dust bowl farmers who flocked to the Valley in search of work, Cannery Row painted...
March on Washington,1963 (Spotlight on American history)
by Tricia Andryszewski
Recounts the historical antecedents and events leading up to the March on Washington in 1963, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., and other prominent African American leaders in their quest for equal civil rights.
The woman's factory strike of 1909 is the story of thousands of young women (most of whom were below 18 years of age) who fought a sexist and dangerous labor system in a time before women had the right to vote. This history book has a lot within its pages that speaks to modern readers, and Dash does so with a fluid and lyrical style. The pictures that accompany the written text allow readers to put faces to the names Dash mentions, and they give readers a "bird's eye" view of the abysmal conditi...
Ms. and the Material Girls (Images and Issues of Women in the Twentieth Century, #5)
by Catherine Gourley
The Attack on Pearl Harbor (Perspectives Library)
by Katherine Krieg
A family, like a quilt, can be pieced together in many ways. And a quilt, like a family, is rich with stories. Lacey's great-grandmother has a trunkful of family quilts, and stories, she loves to share with Lacey. And the stories the old quilts tell help Lacey understand not only the generations that have come before her, but her own family as well. Take Lacey's great-great-aunt Ida Lou, living with her brother, Vic, and their struggling single mother in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1918. Vic wan...
Trudy Ederle loved to swim.And she was determined to be the best.At seventeen Trudy won three medals at the 1924 Olympics, in Paris.By the time she turned nineteen, Trudy had set twenty-nine U.S.and world records.But what she planned to do next had never been done--by a woman.She would tackle the most difficult swim of all time: the twenty-one miles of cold, choppy water that separate England from France.Trudy's historic fourteen-hour swim across the English Channel set a world record.She defied...
The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because black travelers couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black traveler...
The Story of the Civil Rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Photographs (Story of the Civil Rights Movement in Photographs)
by David Aretha