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The Star-Spangled Banner
Liz Sonneborn
Hardcover (Chelsea Clubhouse, Jan. 1, 2004)This patriotic series focuses on the songs, documents, speeches, and poems that have become part of American history and American life today. Through easy-to-read text and historical photographs, students will gain insight into how America's democratic values were formed. In 1814, a young American lawyer named Francis Scott Key watched as British troops attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore. In the end, the American flag still waved above the fort. Filled with emotion, Key wrote the first lines of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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America the Beautiful: The Story Behind Our National Hymn
Liz Sonneborn
Library Binding (Chelsea Clubhouse, Aug. 1, 2003)Introduces Katharine Bates and Samuel Ward, who wrote America the Beautiful, and explores the meaning of the words, how they relate to American history, and why the song became a favorite patriotic anthem.
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I Have a Dream: The Story Behind Martin Luther King Jr.'s Most Famous Speech
Kerry A. Graves
Library Binding (Chelsea Clubhouse, Dec. 1, 2003)Explains the meaning and historical context of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, also providing biographical information about Dr. King and discussing the civil rights movement.
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The Declaration of Independence: The Story Behind America's Founding Document
Kerry A. Graves
Library Binding (Chelsea Clubhouse, Oct. 1, 2003)Focuses on the framing of the Declaration of Independence and the meaning of the document, describing the circumstances leading to the Revolutionary War and some of the challenges faced by the men who wrote the document.
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The Constitution
Kerry A Graves
Hardcover (Chelsea Clubhouse, Jan. 1, 2004)This patriotic series focuses on the songs, documents, speeches, and poems that have become part of American history and American life today. Through easy-to-read text and historical photographs, students will gain insight into how America's democratic values were formed. In the hot, sticky summer of 1787, delegates from 12 of America's 13 states gathered in Philadelphia. The result was the Constitution--the document that became the basis of the U.S. government.
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The Pledge of Allegiance: The Story Behind Our Patriotic Promise
Liz Sonneborn
Library Binding (Chelsea Clubhouse, Oct. 1, 2003)Describes how and why Francis Bellamy came to write the Pledge of Allegiance, explaining the meaning of the pledge and the controversies surrounding it.
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