Books in Focus Book series

Traces the causes, events, and results of the insurrection resulting from the United States decision not to grant Philippine independence at the end of the Spanish-American war.

Details the events resulting in the court cases which led to the 1954 Supreme Court decision decreeing school integration.

An account of the collective hysteria which led to false accusations of witchcraft in the colony of Massachusetts and led to the Salem witch trials

A biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., focusing on his involvement in the civil rights movement. Discusses the investigations of his assassination.

Describes the Cherokee people and culture, traces the events that led to their controversial removal from their homeland, debates the necessity of this action, and examines its tragic results.

Describes Lincoln's assassination, traces the disclosure of the murder conspiracy, and discusses the many clues that were never pursued which still remain to puzzle history.

Discusses that period in American history when ministers such as Theodorus Frelinghuysen and Jonathan Edwards stirred in men a sense of worth and dignity which eventually produced the movement for independence.

An account of the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight, made by Charles Lindbergh in 1927 in The Spirit of St. Louis, an event which marked the beginning of the Air Age.

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The life of Henry Ford emphasizing the creation and growth of the Ford Motor Company and its impact on the American economy.

Chronicles America's first international crisis caused by French representative Genet who instead of improving French-American relations tried to provoke a war with Britain.

The story of the great Shawnee chief's struggle for the preservation of the Indian tribes is related in the broad context of early American history