Hoobler, Dorothy

Examines Cufucianism in conjunction with its resurgence in China a nd the rest of the world. Presents its history, basic beliefs, and evolutionin response to historical events in China.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Peggy and her cousins Harry and Jack experience the excitement of belonging to a family of famous actors as they prepare to open a new theater with a family production of an original play.

Discusses early photographic images of the West and the photographers responsible for these photographic records.

Tells the multicolored and often heroic stories of American immigrant groups through their own words and pictures.

Examines the largest social program in the United States primarily designed to meet the income needs of retired and disabled workers.

Julie and her family join a wagon train traveling from Indiana to Oregon during the 1800s, enduring many challenges while on the difficult five-month journey.

In Overton, Ohio, in the 1920s, Fran Parker and her family adjust to such modern inventions as the radio and the airplane, and Fran enters a radio contest.

Selections from autobiographical material written by American girls including one who lived in the colony of Virginia in 1756 and another who lived in the early 1950s.

The Aldrich, Vivanti, and Dixon families gather to celebrate Nell and Rocco's one hundredth birthdays as the new century dawns and the specter of the Y2K bug threatens.

The new inventions and gadgets of 1983, such as the personal computer, Swatch watch, and Rubik's Cube, don't distract Suzanne and her friends from confronting the owner of a factory that is dumping toxic chemicals into a nearby lake.