"Why so dim?" Hinkle Star asked Winkle Star. "This is your night to shine the brightest, for it is Christmas Eve!" Hinkle exclaimed. "You are the star of Wonder and Hope! Tis' the night we celebrate the birth of Jesus, our Savior!"
Presents accounts of eight large expositions held in the United States from 1852 to 1964 that not only reflected but stimulated technological progress.
A portrait of Washington, D.C., discusses the history of America's capital city, from George Washington's vision of the nation's capital and its construction and development, to its destruction by the British in 1814 and Madison's rebuilding of the city after the war.
Hardcover
(Westminster John Knox Pr, March 1, 1980)
Describes what it was like to travel by horseback, stagecoach, canalboat, flatboat, covered wagon, and sailing ship before the days of motorized travel.
An evocative portrait of the youth of George Washington is set against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Virginia and the home that became the great estate of Mount Vernon
Describes the experiences of people who settled the American West as miners, peddlers and shopkeepers, boardinghouse keepers, waitresses, and domestics