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Introduces the Negro Leagues of baseball, highlighting the players, coaches, owners, and teams that dominated the leagues during the 1930s and 1940s.

Describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the moon, and the many missions and discoveries that have taken place since then.

For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later.

"Explains the leadup to the bombing [of Hiroshima], what the . . . results of it were, and how the threat of atomic war has colored world events since"--Provided by publisher.

An overview of the world as it 20,000 years ago when glaciers covered the earth and creatures, now extinct, like the woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats battled to survive.

"Explains the leadup to the bombing [of Hiroshima], what the . . . results of it were, and how the threat of atomic war has colored world events since"--Provided by publisher.

"This baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners ushered in the biggest change in the history of baseball. In America during the early twentieth century, no part was safe from segregation, not even the country's national pastime, baseball. Despite their exodus from the Major Leagues because of the color of their skin, African American men still found a way to participate in the sport they loved. [This book] shines a spotlight on the players, coaches, owners, and teams that dominated the Negro Leagues during the 1930s and 40s. Readers will learn about how phenomenal players like Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and of course, Jackie Robinson greatly changed the sport of baseball"--OCLc.

In 1961, a concrete border went up overnight, dividing the city of Berlin into two parts: East and West. The story of the Berlin Wall holds up a mirror to post-World War II politics and the Cold War era, when the United States and the USSR were enemies, always on the verge of war.

Text and illustrations look at the August 1963 March on Washington to demand equal rights for African-Americans.

Text and illustrations explore the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941.