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Exploring The Great Lakes
Linda Thompson
Paperback (Rourke Educational Media, Aug. 1, 2013)Young learners will be introduced to an important stage in history when they read Exploring The Great Lakes. This book is filled with photographs, interesting facts, discussion questions, and more, to effectively engage young learners in such a significant re-telling of events. Each 48-page title in The History Of America Collection delves into complex narratives in history. Concise, but comprehensive, these titles are very approachable for transitioning readers and learners beginning to recognize detail orientation and how to analyze text. Each book in this series features photographs, timelines, discussion questions, and more, to fully engage transitioning readers. The History Of America Collection engages students in major historical events with fascinating facts, photographs, and more. Readers are able to gauge their own understanding with before-reading questions that help build background knowledge and end-of-book comprehension and extension activities.
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Andrew Jackson's America: 1824-1850
Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
Library Binding (Benchmark Books, Sept. 1, 1998)Examines the events and personalities, particularly President Andrew Jackson, that shaped the development of the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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A Century of Immigration: 1820-1924
Christopher Collier Collier
Library Binding (Cavendish Square Publishing, Jan. 1, 2000)History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in this compelling series aimed at young readers.Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.
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Wounded Knee 1890: The End of the Plains Indian Wars
Thomas Streissguth
Hardcover (Facts on File, May 16, 1998)Narrates the events leading up to the massacre which marked the end of a long succession of wars between whites and Indians, and concludes with a description of the battle itself.
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The Civil War
Anne Devereaux Jordan, Virginia Schomp
Library Binding (Cavendish Square Publishing, Nov. 1, 2006)Describes the role of African Americans during the Civil War, 1861-1865.
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The Jeffersonian Republicans: 1800-1823
Christopher Collier Collier
Library Binding (Cavendish Square Publishing, May 1, 1998)History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in this compelling series aimed at young readers.Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.
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U.S. Political Parties: Development and Division
Philip Wolny
Library Binding (Lucent Books, Aug. 15, 2018)Partisan politics and division between Americans of different political parties are constantly in the news. However, political division is not a new thing in the United States, and readers are introduced to the history of political parties as they explore how the early divisions between the Founding Fathers are still reflected in many ways today. The insightful main text and sidebars include annotated quotations to provide first-person perspectives on the various political parties that have had an impact on American democracy. Primary sources and a detailed timeline provide additional information about this timely topic.
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Progressivism, the Great Depression, and the New Deal: 1901-1941
Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
Library Binding (Benchmark Books, March 1, 2001)Describes what the Great Depression meant to families and how it affected the way people viewed the government, forcing it to change, and how FDR improved economic conditions with the New Deal.
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Indians, Cowboys and Farmers: 1865-1910
Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
Hardcover (Cavendish Square Publishing, Sept. 1, 2000)History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in this compelling series aimed at young readers.Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.
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Reconstruction: Opposing Viewpoints
Brenda Stalcup
Paperback (Greenhaven Pr, Feb. 1, 1995)Participants and historians express constrasting views of the purpose of Reconstruction, moderate and radical approaches, the role of Blacks in society, the end of the era, and reasons why it failed
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Roots of Humanity
Jim Ollhoff
Library Binding (Abdo & Daughters, )None
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The United States Enters the World Stage: From Alaska Purchase Through World War I, 1867-1919
Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier
Library Binding (Cavendish Square Publishing, Sept. 1, 2000)History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in this compelling series aimed at young readers.Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.
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