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  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Alan Pierce

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing, Jan. 1, 2005)
    Discusses defining moments in American history.
    V

  • Great Depression

    Cory Gideon Gunderson

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Provides an overview of the history surrounding the Great Depression.
    U

  • California Gold Rush

    Sheila Rivera

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Discusses the early history of California, focusing especially on the gold rush period.
    R

  • Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    Sheila Rivera

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing, Jan. 1, 2004)
    A look at the people, events, and controversy involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
    T

  • Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

    Rachel A. Koestler-Grack

    Library Binding (Abdo Group, April 1, 2004)
    Discusses the people and events surrounding the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
    W

  • Underground Railroad

    Alan Pierce

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing, Jan. 1, 2005)
    Discusses defining moments in American history.
    V

  • Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy

    Rachel A Koestler-Grack

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing, Jan. 1, 2005)
    Discusses defining moments in American history.
    T

  • The Jamestown Colony

    Alan Pierce

    Library Binding (ABDO & Daughters, Jan. 1, 2005)
    Discusses defining moments in American history.
    V

  • American Documents: The Bill of Rights

    Judith Lloyd Yero

    Hardcover (National Geographic Children's Books, June 13, 2006)
    Judith Lloyd Yero's thought-provoking text, coupled with carefully selected images from the past and present, challenge young readers to carefully examine and understand the Constitution's first ten Amendments, which guarantee their basic human rights. In addition to defining these rights, Yero puts them into the context of present-day life so that kids will recognize that the Bill of Rights is as important to their daily lives as it was to the lives of the first citizens of the newly independent United States. Included in the back matter are the full text of the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and the Miranda Rights.
    Y

  • Boston Tea Party

    Cory Gunderson

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Discusses how and why American colonists protested high taxes from Great Britain by dumping tea in the Boston harbor in 1773, as well as the ramifications of their actions.
    V

  • Gettysburg Address

    Sheila Rivera

    Hardcover (ABDO & Daughters, Jan. 1, 2004)
    - Primary Source Documents- Full-color Photographs- Diagrams- Maps- Timeline- Index- Glossary
    X

  • Louisiana Purchase

    Alan Pierce

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Provides an overview of the history surrounding the Louisiana Purchase.
    U