epub |eng | | Author:Bryan, Bethany;

Today, an executive order is essentially a directive from the president that bypasses Congress. These are often issued during times of crisis when Congress wouldn’t usually have time to act. ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-14 | Author:Joe Giorello

Marine on Guadalcanal. August 9, 1942: Naval Battle of Savo Island The Japanese navy forced the American Navy to retreat, leaving the Marines alone on Guadalcanal short of supplies and ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Cheryl Mullenbach

A “jungle,” or homeless camp, near St. Louis, Missouri. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-fsa-8b27090 5 GROWING UP in TOUGH TIMES Patience Abbe was 12 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Eileen Lucas [Eileen Lucas]

When the students reached the soldiers, they were told to go home. They were told that they could not go into the school. Sadly, they turned around and left. 25 ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Nancy Castaldo [Lowe, Wesley]

She talked about the canal’s history with another passenger during the morning. As the day went on, the sun got higher and hotter. Nellie sat in her deck chair. Mosquitoes ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-29 | Author:Danielle Smith-Llera [Smith-Llera, Danielle]

Chapter Four A PEACEFUL WAR Soon after the Greensboro Four began their protest in early February 1960, John Lewis remembered a telephone ringing in Nashville, Tennessee. Lewis was a Fisk ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:Eric Braun [Braun, Eric]

Hugh Harris Kennedy Space Center, February 4 Like the divers, reporters were searching too. They weren’t satisfied with the information NASA was providing. They believed NASA knew more than it ...

epub |eng | 2021-03-23 | Author:Michael Long

Demonstrating in Los Angeles following the acquittal of George Zimmerman. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement came to national prominence after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ...

epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:James Lincoln Collier

The Soviets scored a great propaganda success with the launching of their ICBM and soon after, Sputnik space satellite. They also were ahead of the Americans in putting a man ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Michael Burgan [Burgan, Michael]

The USS Randolph docked alongside a repair ship after it was damaged by a kamikaze. To follow another path, press here. To read the conclusion, press here. To fly a ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Elizabeth Raum [Raum, Elizabeth]

To help the wounded, press here. To man the guns, press here. To take cover. To swim ashore. Waves slap you in the face, choking you. Bits of steel and ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]

To follow another path, press here. To read the conclusion, press here. You can’t bring yourself to fire. You watch the Germans disappear over the dunes. Perhaps they will be ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Barbara Elizabeth Walsh

After the end of World War I, Moina Belle Michael poses with soldiers on a ferryboat. Two days later, World War I ended and Moina returned to her students in ...