united states

Introduces children's form of dress during the 19th century, including that of Native people, and the making of clothing and its care.

An overview of European art and its influence on American art from 1600 to 1800.

Presents a brief history of Wall Street and explains how stocks and bonds are traded in the U.S. securities market.

Text and pictures present the routes, lives, and hardships of runaway slaves on their way to freedom on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War.

A selection of Frederick Douglass's speeches and writings on the topics of slavery, injustice, inequality, and racism.

Describes the training and work of such craftspeople as carpenters, masons, silversmiths, wigmakers, and leatherworkers living in the American colonies.

Story of the first three African Americans to journey into space and the others who have followed them and taken their place in the forefront of space exploration and discovery.

Shows what life is like in a three-ring tented circus.

Presents through text, photographs, and illustrations African-Americans who have produced inventions that made major contributions to a range of fields, often in the face of enormous obstacles and often with scant recognition.

Traces women's struggle to join the battle on all fronts--in the army and navy and in the air, as correspondents, as doctors and nurses, and on the home front.