Books in Language Arts Explorer: History Digs series

Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving, all critical thinking skills, while learning about key eras in U.S. history.--[book cover]

Explores American industry, including the transcontinental railroad, open door policy for immigrants, and the theft of land from the American Indians.

Following a student through a living history museum, readers learn about the colonization and settlement of America from 1585 to 1763.

Through engaging, interactive scenarios, learners can experiment with text prediction, purpose-driven research, and creative problem solving while learning about key eras in U.S. history.

Explores the growth of a nation and changes in America during the nineteenth century, including expanding westward, the California gold rush, and slavery.

Examines endangered species, how human activities have contributed to shrinking numbers, and what is being done to protect animals for the future.

Challenges readers to explore historic events from 1945 to the 1970s as a historian would through artifacts, research, and interviews.

Discusses the three groups of people most impacted by the discovery of America, Europeans, the discoverers; native Americans, the original inhabitants; and the first African slaves, brought to provide the labor to harvest crops.

Challenges readers to explore the Revolutionary War and its causes as a historian would through research, artifacts, and first hand accounts.

Challenges readers to explore historical events from the early twentieth century as a historian would through artifacts, research, and interviews.

Challenges readers to explore contemporary historic events as a historian would through artifacts, research, and interviews.

Follows the history of the United States from the Great Depression through World War II. This book, which follows a student researcher investigating primary sources, will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about this challenging period in US history.