epub |eng | | Author:Susan Sales Harkins

Ancient Egyptians played senet, a popular board game. No one knows exactly how the game was played. Several sets were found in Tutankhamen’s tomb. This set is engraved with the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gretchen Woelfle

Mr. Sedgwick rubbed his chin. “I don’t know. . .” “You wrote those freedom words at Colonel Ashley’s house,” she said. “Do you believe them?” Her blazing eyes met his. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Hehner [Barbara Hehner ]

Chapter 9 ONE DAY AT A TIME With the tunnel shut down for a few months, Wally lost the work that was most important to him. But he was determined ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-27 | Author:Monica Kulling [Kulling, Monica]

Harriet told John her plan to escape. “I have a right to freedom or death,” she said. “I will have one or the other, since no one is going to ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Robin Phillips

When the bishop gave the marriage blessing, Justinian and Theodora were finally husband and wife. Chapter 5 A RING AND A CROWN The pointed toes of Theodora’s slippers flashed from ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-27 | Author:Kristen Susienka

Marriage and Freedom In 1844, Harriet married John Tubman. He was a free black man. Slaves weren’t supposed to get married. That didn’t stop Harriet. Within a few years, though, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Marylou Morano Kjelle

Key and others wanted Liberia to be a place where those who had been slaves could truly be free. The first ship left for Liberia in 1820 with 88 black ...

epub |eng | | Author:Susan Sales Harkins

In 1910, artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris painted The Abduction of Pocahontas. Two of Pocahontas’s own people tricked her into boarding the ship of Samuel Argall (who stands at left). ...

epub |eng | | Author:Russell Roberts

Davy Crockett wearing his typical hunting clothes. This picture was painted in 1889 by William Henry Huddle. CHAPTER FOUR Famous Davy Crockett kept trying to get his land bill passed. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen Krull

BORN IN IDAHO OR MONTANA, 1788(?); DIED IN FORT MANUEL, NORTH DAKOTA, 1812 (SACAJAWEA) Two American explorers and their Shoshone Indian interpreter on an epic journey Meriwether Lewis and William ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-04 | Author:Joan Holub [Holub, Joan]

Marco had never seen coal before. He was amazed to see people burning black rocks. The Mongols had one of the very first pony express systems for sending mail. Marco ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Janet Benge & Geoff Benge [Benge, Janet & Benge, Geoff]

On December 19, 1734, Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf was officially ordained as a pastor in the Lutheran Church. His ordination was the fulfillment of a dream and a way to ...

epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Geoff Benge & Janet Benge [Benge, Geoff & Benge, Janet]

Chapter 11 The First Wave The wedding date was set for June 14, 1963, and Loren had a lot to do before then. He wanted to buy a house, not ...

epub |eng | 2002-06-15 | Author:Janet Benge & Geoff Benge [Benge, Janet & Benge, Geoff]

Chapter 10 “Unbecoming and Extreme” The Salvation Army was born in May 1878. News of its founding fired the imagination of many of the old East London Christian Mission workers, ...

epub |eng | 1999-06-01 | Author:Janet Benge & Geoff Benge [Benge, Janet & Benge, Geoff]

Chapter 10 Janie The local women wailed loudly and reached out to touch Mary as she was carried down to the canoe. It was March 1883, and Mary had become ...