Perspectives library

Presents factual details of the Battle of Gettysburg that took place during the U.S. Civil War.

Describes how the Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s from the perspectives of a Colorado River explorer, a dam worker, and a dam worker's daughter.

Explores the history of New York's Statue of Liberty, providing different points of view.

Examines the history of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955 to 1956, providing different points of view.

Presents the events of the Dust Bowl which occured during the 1930s from three different perspectives, an Oklahoma farmer, a migrant worker in California, and a government journalist.

Describes events of the Great Depression during the 1930s from three different perspectives, a government worker, a Civilian Conservation Corps worker, and a twelve-year-old girl.

Describes the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 from three different perspectives, a fireman, a Russian Hill resident, and and man from Chinatown.

This book relays the factual details behind the building and gift of the Statue of Liberty. Readers learn about the key historical event from the perspectives of a U.S. harbor worker, a French artisan, and a U.S. reporter.

This book relays the factual details of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Readers learn about the key historical event from the perspectives of a civil rights activist, a church leader, and an opponent of the boycott.

This book relays the factual details of the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a child at an internment camp, a Japanese-American soldier, and a worker at the Manzanar War Relocation Center. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.