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The American Revolution

The World At War
1994
From Valley Forge, Washington led his newly trained army into battle against the British at Monmouth. This video focuses on these important conflicts, and looks at the worst winter of the war, with the mutiny at Morristown.

The American Revolution

1776
1994
The sparks of rebellion became the flame of Revolution, and the basis for the first true democracy in the modern world was laid out with the words "We hold these truths to be sel-evident.".

Civil War Era

A New Nation
1996
Great generals, war and medicine, women of the Civil War Era, industry and immigrations, American technology.

The first american flag

2009
The legend says that Betsy Ross sewed the first U.S. flag in 1776. But the facts say someone else did. Who was it? And how has the flag changed since then? Here_s the story.

The rock and the river

2009
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.

The American Civil War

a multicultural encyclopedia
Contains alphabetically arranged topics relating to the Civil War with a multicultural approach which reflect on the social and cultural composition of the country at that time.

Korematsu v. United States

Japanese-American internment
2006
Describes the historical context of the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case involving Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu and the United States that allowed the removal and imprisonment of Korematsu and other Japanese-Americans because of military necessity.

Beyond the metal

a journey from their hearts to yours
1997

Presidents of a world power

a sourcebook on the U.S. presidency
1993
Uses a variety of contemporary materials to describe and illustrate the political and personal lives of the United States presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Rock and the River: Fire in the Streets

2012
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.

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