McNeese, Tim

Explores key political and social events in America from the 1960s to the present. Features full-color and black-and-white photographs, illustrations, maps, a glossary, a chronology, a timeline, and further resources.

Presents a history on America's beginning years exploring how it shaped the nation. Includes maps, illustrations, a time-line, and side-bars.

Covers the tumultuous time period of 1851 to 1865, exploring the catalysts for the bloodiest conflict in America's history. Features full-color and black-and-white photographs, illustrations, maps, boxed insets, a glossary, a chronology and timeline.

Discusses the explosion of the "U.S.S. Maine" in Havana harbor in February 1898, an event that provoked the United States to declare was on Spain.

Surveys the history of clippers and whaling ships and examines their significance in America's growth as a nation.

Examines the experiences of the Donner Party, a group of eighty-seven individuals that headed West from Illinois in 1846, became trapped in a snowstorm, and was forced to take desperate measures to stay alive.

Introduces students to the people, events, and legislation that shaped the civil rights movement, describing the methods used to help minorities in the United States gain equal rights, the court decisions that impacted the movement, and key activists, such as Martin Luther King, Jr.

Discusses the history of the New York City subway system.