Passages to History
15 total works
During the Great Depression, Hank Proctor has to put aside his dreams of becoming a doctor to care for his parents, amidst worry that his father will do something desperate.
In 1956, high school junior Grace Foster doesn't see the racial injustices in her hometown of Lipscomb, Alabama, until a friend points them out, but she soon discovers a cause worth fighting for.
Ken Sutton is a good American citizen, but he knows that the war in Vietnam is wrong and feels he must do all he can to stop it, despite his father's strong objections.
In 1939 in Westphalia, Ohio, seventeen-year-old German American Karl Schmidt has trouble believing what he is hearing from his friend Rebecca about Jews being mistreated by Hitler.
Because of her stepmother, Josephine Thorpe, age fourteen, has to leave the family farm in 1873 to work in a clothing mill.
Sixteen-year-old Amelia Kintz misses her snug little house in Germany after her family moves to a dirty shanty in an Ohio immigrant settlement in 1855.
Sixteen-year-old Lao Wai has come to America to make his fortune, working on the transcontinental railroad.