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A Primary Source History of Slavery in the United States by Allison Crotzer Kimmel
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Allison Crotzer Kimmel [Kimmel, Allison Crotzer]

the committee report that includes the Missouri Compromise, dated March 1, 1820 THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE TENSION TURNS TO VIOLENCE Tensions over slavery continued to grow between the North and South. ...
( Category: History January 14,2023 )
The Split History of Westward Expansion in the United States by Nell Musolf
epub |eng | 2019-05-28 | Author:Nell Musolf [Musolf, Nell]

LOUISIANA PURCHASE In 1803 the United States increased in size considerably. That was the year the United States bought 828,000 square miles (2.1 million square km) of land from France. ...
( Category: History January 14,2023 )
The Peoples of Middle-earth (The History of Middle-earth, Book 12) by Christopher Tolkien
epub |eng | 2022-12-24 | Author:Christopher Tolkien [Tolkien, Christopher]

( Category: Mythology January 14,2023 )
The Greatest Lies in History by Alexander Canduci
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Alexander Canduci

THE ORIGINS OF MONOTHEISM The worship of Aten, introduced into Egypt by Akhenaten, is the first verifiable example of monotheism in the world. Not surprisingly, there has been considerable discussion ...
( Category: World January 14,2023 )
Hiking through History Colorado by Robert Hurst
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Hurst

The Hike The near-universal reaction of the tourists who attempt to hike this loop is fascinoyance. What’s fascinoyance, you ask? Fascinoyance is the perfect combination of two seemingly exclusive emotions, ...
( Category: Colorado January 14,2023 )
The Split History of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by Steven Otfinoski
epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]

Isoroku Yamamoto Yamamoto spent nearly a decade in the United States between 1919 and 1928. He learned English at Harvard University and later served as an admiral’s aide in the ...
( Category: Asia January 13,2023 )
A Primary Source History of U.S. Independence by Krystyna Poray Goddu
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Krystyna Poray Goddu [Goddu, Krystyna Poray]

Printed in 1775 this map of the British battle plan was drawn by an officer at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Below the map appears a letter written by British ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary January 13,2023 )
Breaking History by Keegan Kennedy
epub |eng | | Author:Keegan Kennedy

Driving home in the rain, I was beaming. In fact, I felt as if I were glowing so brightly that I could have turned off my headlights in the late ...
( Category: Gay January 13,2023 )
The Split History of the Battles of Lexington and Concord by Brenda Haugen
epub |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Brenda Haugen [Haugen, Brenda]

CHAPTER 2 THREATS TO PEACE The British saw the colonists’ acts of rebellion as threats to peace. British officials hoped the arrival of General Thomas Gage in Boston in May ...
( Category: Colonial & Revolutionary January 13,2023 )
The Split History of the D-Day Invasion by Michael Burgan
epub |eng | 2018-02-08 | Author:Michael Burgan [Burgan, Michael]

RESISTANCE NESTS Part of the German defenses along the French coast were widerstandsnests (WNs) or “resistance nests.” Many were just trenches dug in the ground with tunnels that connected them ...
( Category: Children's eBooks January 13,2023 )
A Primary Source History of the Dust Bowl by Rebecca Langston-George
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Rebecca Langston-George [Langston-George, Rebecca]

With nowhere else to go, migrants camped on roadsides in California and other states. Although only about 20 percent of the Dust Bowl migrants came from Oklahoma, all the migrants ...
( Category: 1900s January 13,2023 )
A Primary Source History of Westward Expansion by Steven Otfinoski
epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH The California Herald newspaper printed a full page article on December 26, 1848, encouraging people to come to the “gold region.” While California had new settlers too, ...
( Category: History January 13,2023 )
A Primary Source History of the US Civil War by John Micklos Jr
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:John Micklos Jr. [Micklos, John]

Bloody Battles The Civil War cost more lives than any other war in U.S. history. About 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Many died in battle. About two out ...
( Category: 1800s January 13,2023 )
A Primary Source History of the Gold Rush by John Micklos Jr
epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:John Micklos Jr. [Micklos, John]

The Miner’s Ten Commandments were the only rules many miners lived by in their camps. THE VEINS RUN DRY Most of the easy-to-reach gold was gone by 1851. At that ...
( Category: History January 13,2023 )
The Wright Brothers--Nose-Diving into History (Epic Fails #1) by Ben Thompson
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Thompson

On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright was piloting the Flyer No. 1 as the brothers made history with the first heavier-than-air plane. They stayed aloft for 59 seconds, covering 852 ...
( Category: History January 13,2023 )

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