Alarcon, Roben

Examines the history of teaching and teachers in America, from colonial days until the present, emphasizing the changes that have taken place in the classroom while the importance of teachers has remained.

Photographs and simple text describe the job of a librarian and the different tools they use.

An introduction to teachers, how and where they work, and the tools they use, with photographs and information that show how the profession has changed over the years, and including a look at a day in the life of a teacher in the late 1800s and in the twenty-first century.

Explores the history of Native Americans in the 1800s, discussing how the white settlers' desire for land affected Indian tribes, examining various treaties, legislation, and conflicts between tribes and settlers, and looking at life on the reservation.

Explains how libraries and the job of librarians have changed over the years.

Offers a brief overview of the life of Lakota Chief Sitting Bull, discussing his childhood, early battles, refusal to give up his tribe's land to settlers, negotiations with white men, and other related topics.

A brief, illustrated biography of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Provides a history of the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights, and includes an overview of the three branches of government, how laws are created, and the role of the President and the Supreme Court.

Explains how the job of teachers have changed over the years.