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History of US - Book #1
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-- Book 1: The First Americans Pre-history - 1600 Talk about your extreme adventure! Here it is! Trek across Beringia with hunter-gatherers. Hunt seals with the Inuit. Harvest corn on a cliff-top mesa. Hunt the mighty buffalo. Sail with Leif Erickson, Columbus, and join all the great early explorers—including Cabot, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Cortes, Henry the Navigator, Champlain, and others.
History of US - Book #10
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-- Book 10: All the People 1945-2001 People call it “post-war,” but the last 55 years feature battles of another kind—struggles for equality for all. Here's Harry S. Truman, Joe McCarthy, the 60's, the Vietnam War, the women's movement, major American scientific advancement, the Cold War, J. F. K., Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Ronald Reagan, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton and September 11th.
History of US - Book #2
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-- Book 2: Making Thirteen Colonies 1600-1740 Time to tame the fierce wilderness and meet native peoples... Rendezvous with Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown. Join the religious reformer William Penn and the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Sit with the judges at the Salem witch trials. Hike over the mountains with Daniel Boone. And let Ben Franklin give you some salty advice in his Poor Richard's Almanac.
History of Us - Book #3
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-- Book 3: From Colonies to Country 1735-1791 And a country is born! But first, there's the French and Indian Wars, the Stamp Act and Magna Carta, the Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence, not to mention the actual War for Independence. George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Molly Pitcher, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and many more play a thrilling role in the tale.
History of US - Book #4
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-- Book 4: The New Nation 1789-1850 Here's life in the fledgling republic! We see George Washington learning to be president, the ins and outs of the Louisiana Purchase, early administrations and laws, economic issues, the unbelievable journey of Lewis and Clark, great Indian chiefs Osceola and Tecumseh, Jefferson and Hamilton, and the disgraceful Trail of Tears.
History of US - Book #5
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-- Book 5: Liberty for All? No sooner a nation, than kaboom! It's the westward migration, the California Gold Rush, a war with Mexico, the Oregon boundary conflict, Texas and the Alamo, de Tocqueville and Dickens's visits, the mighty Sojourner Truth, immigration, the budding Women's Rights Movement, the Underground Railroad, the contentious Kansas-Nebraska Act, and so much more.
History of US - Book #6
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-- Book 6: War, Terrible War 1855-1865 Some people called it the Civil War, but there was nothing civil about it. Here's the story of the Civil War, with Lincoln, his debates with Stephen Douglas, the Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, Appomattox, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the struggles of the soldiers in blue and gray.
History of US - Book #7
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-- Book 7: Reconstructing America 1865-1890 The country tenuously reunites, the American West beckons, and new cities spring up across the plains. Meet P. T. Barnum, Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, Lee Yick, Thaddeus Stevens, Thomas Alva Edison, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Mary Antin, and a nasty fellow named Jim Crow. Who are they? Your ancestors. And here are their extraordinary stories.
History of US - Book #8
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-- Book 8: An Age of Extremes 1880-1917 You learn about economics in this volume, usually a snore, but there's not a yawn in the house when you meet dynamic movers and changers like Mother Jones and Ida Tarbell; the powerful captains of industry: Pierpont Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller; the muckrakers, the poet Emma Lazarus, two brothers who want to fly, and a teddy bear president.
History of US - Book #9
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-- Book 9:War, Peace and All That Jazz 1918-1919
America's on a roll and suddenly we've got Model T's, woodframe airplanes, radios, Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, jazz, Babe Ruth, the Depression, the New Deal, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the two World Wars—all in a 30-year span!
History of US Books #1 - 10
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-- Contains the following titles at a savings!
The First American Prehistory to 1600
Making Thirteen Colonies 1600-1740
From Colonies to Country 1735-1791
The New Nation 1789-1850
Liberty for All? 1820-1860
War, Terrible War 1855-1865
Reconstructing America 1865-1890
An Age of Extremes 1880-1917
War, Peace, and All That Jazz
All the People 1945-2001
History of US Books #1 - 11
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-- Contains the following titles at a savings!
The First American Prehistory to 1600
Making Thirteen Colonies 1600-1740
From Colonies to Country 1735-1791
The New Nation 1789-1850
Liberty for All? 1820-1860
War, Terrible War 1855-1865
Reconstructing America 1865-1890
An Age of Extremes 1880-1917
War, Peace, and All That Jazz
All the People 1945-2001
Sourcebook and Index
History of US Source and Index Book #11
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-- Documents that shaped the American Nation This sourcebook presents excerpts from many of the documents recommended on various state frameworks At the beginning of each selections there is a note on where you can find the document or topic discussed in the series, a headnote that provides background on the document and discusses why it is important, the text of the document, and definitions in the margins that will help readers understand unfamiliar word or unusual meanings as well as identifying . . .
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