Tonge, Neil

The history of punishing criminals is a long and gruesome one. In 620 BC, a Greek named Draco wrote a legal code that punished almost every crime with death, except murder! For that, criminals were exiled. Odd facts about crime and punishment like this abound in history.

Examines the conditions faced by coal miners in Britain during the nineteenth century through the story of young John Elliot who, along with his father and five-year-old brother, survives a disaster at the Great Northern Coalfield in the 1840s.

Uses primary sources such as newspaper articles, broadcasts, propaganda, letters, and diary entries to examine the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany and the events that provoked World War II, and includes maps, photographs, and a time line.

Uses primary sources such as newspaper articles, broadcasts, propaganda, letters, and diary entries to examine the causes, progression, and aftermath of the persecution of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany during World War II, and includes maps, photographs, and a time line.

Uses primary sources such as newspaper articles, broadcasts, propaganda, letters, and diary entries to examine the battles of World War II, covering clashes between the Axis powers and Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and Japan from 1939 to 1945, and includes maps, photographs, and a time line.