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Free Boy-A True Story of Slave and Master.pdf by Schuhuen
pdf | | 2020-06-28 | Author:Schuhuen

( Category: 1800s January 28,2023 )
The Civil War for Kids by Janis Herbert
epub |eng | 1999-01-15 | Author:Janis Herbert

Who Rode Whom? Robert E. Lee’s horse was Traveller. William Tecumseh Sherman rode Sam. George McClellan rode Dan Webster. Ulysses S. Grant loved all horses, especially Cincinnati. Stonewall Jackson went ...
( Category: Civil War Era January 28,2023 )
The Biggest Battles of the Revolutionary War by Christopher Forest
epub |eng | 2015-12-04 | Author:Christopher Forest [Christopher Forest]

Battle of the Serapis September 23, 1779 For many years, British warships were seen as the most powerful in the world. In an attempt to fight this huge fleet, the ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary January 17,2023 )
G is for Garden State by Eileen Cameron
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Eileen Cameron

P The Pinelands in south Jersey, also known as the Pine Barrens, covers over a million acres of wilderness with forests, cedar swamps and huge underground water sources or aquifers. ...
( Category: State & Local January 17,2023 )
S is for Silver by Eleanor Coerr
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Eleanor Coerr

O On May 27, 1987, Nevada adopted the black opal as our state precious gemstone. The Virgin Valley is the only place in North America where such spectacular opals are ...
( Category: State & Local January 17,2023 )
E is for Enchantment by Helen Foster James & Neecy Twinem
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Helen Foster James & Neecy Twinem

O Georgia O’Keeffe was a talented artist. She fell in love with New Mexico on her first visit and said it gave her inspiration. Soon she moved to New Mexico ...
( Category: State & Local January 17,2023 )
M Is For Maple Syrup by Cynthia Furlong Reynolds
epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:Cynthia Furlong Reynolds

N Just as 50 states form our nation, many Native American tribes together formed the great Algonquin nation. In Vermont, the Abenaki, Penacook, and Mahican peoples roamed the forests until ...
( Category: State & Local January 17,2023 )
H is for Hawkeye by Patricia A. Pierce
epub |eng | 2003-01-15 | Author:Patricia A. Pierce

O Iowa has never specified what kind of oak is its official state tree, but the state’s most common oaks are the white oak and the bur oak. Oaks are ...
( Category: State & Local January 17,2023 )
P Is for Palmetto by Carol Crane
epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:Carol Crane

P The palmetto tree is also called the sabal or cabbage palm. The trees played an important part in the Revolutionary War. Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan’s Island, was made of ...
( Category: State & Local January 17,2023 )
History Heroes: Neil Armstrong by Damian Harvey
epub |eng | 2014-05-23 | Author:Damian Harvey

They knew if they couldn’t stop the spacecraft from spinning they would both be killed. Using all his skill as a pilot, Neil fired the thrusters and slowly the spinning ...
( Category: 2000s January 17,2023 )
What Was the Great Depression? by Janet B. Pascal
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Janet B. Pascal

By 1932, about half the country was living in poverty. People were dying of hunger. Private charities couldn’t handle a problem this big. In the Appalachian Mountains, a very poor ...
( Category: 1900s January 15,2023 )
Footprints on the Moon by Lorraine Marwood
epub |eng | 2020-12-08 | Author:Lorraine Marwood

Saying goodbye I focus on my vases of flowers as hard as I can while the funeral service unfolds. Dad reads out a timeline of Grandma’s life, (I listened when ...
( Category: 1900s January 15,2023 )
Lifting as We Climb by Evette Dionne
epub |eng | 2020-04-21 | Author:Evette Dionne [Dionne, Evette]

SEVEN The Back of the Movement: The Women’s Suffrage March Alice Paul, a twenty-eight-year-old radical and revolutionary suffragist, thought the National American Woman Suffrage Association wasn’t doing enough to get ...
( Category: 1800s January 15,2023 )
The Rise of the Cities: 1820 - 1920 by James Lincoln Collier
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:James Lincoln Collier

By the mid-nineteenth century many cities sported lavish theaters, dance halls, and open-air entertainment gardens. This picture shows one of the most famous of them, Niblo's Garden, in New York ...
( Category: 1800s January 14,2023 )
What Was the Underground Railroad? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Yona Zeldis McDonough

Early the next morning, Henry met up with Dr. Smith. It was still dark out. Henry climbed into the box, and it was nailed shut. The box was going to ...
( Category: 1800s January 13,2023 )

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