Keep young readers engaged as they explore the natural world around them. Full of informative drawings and photos, "fast facts" boxes, and glossary of terms.
The Vietnam war continues to be the focus of intense controversy. While most people—liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, historians, pundits, and citizens alike—agree that the United States did not win the...
Travel back to the future and experience history as it happened. Imagine standing by the launch of the first space shuttle or seeing television for the first time, not to...
The son of an Alabama sharecropper, John Lewis experienced the injustice of segregation early in life. Inspired to action by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis joined...
A riveting account of the civil rights boycott that changed history by the foremost author of history for young people. Now a classic, Freedman's book tells the dramatic stories of...
The "Cornerstones of Freedom" detail important events in United States history. Children are given the sense of being witnesses to history-in-the-making and contemporaries of famous people who helped shape the...
Explains the political, social, economic, and military aspects of the Vietnam War, the longest in American history.
It's 1927, and the air race is on! Three pilots compete to be the first to fly across the Atlantic. In the spring of that year, three airplanes were at...
How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights...
Chronicles the activities, commitments, and achievements of the founder and director of the Congress of Racial Equality, focusing on his role in organizing the 1961 Freedom Rides and introducing nonviolent...
In this fascinating book, Haskins chronicles the struggle to overturn the laws of segregation that dealt with transportation: from Morgan vs. Commonwealth of Virginia to the Freedom Rides. These rides...