Turning points in American history

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The Battle of Gettysburg

  • Coffey, Vincent J.
Presents the events in the Civil War leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg and describes that clash and its aftermath.
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Hiroshima

Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 02/11/2020 - 18:53

Traces the development of the atomic bomb and how the decision was made to drop it on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Also discusses the aftermath of that event and its implications for the future of the world.

Hiroshima

Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 02/11/2020 - 18:53

Traces the development of the atomic bomb and how the decision was made to drop it on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Also discusses the aftermath of that event and its implications for the future of the world.

Hiroshima

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

Traces the development of the atomic bomb and how the decision was made to drop it on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Also discusses the aftermath of that event and its implications for the future of the world.

Hiroshima

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 11:25

Traces the development of the atomic bomb and how the decision was made to drop it on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Also discusses the aftermath of that event and its implications for the future of the world.

Samuel Slater's mill and the Industrial Revolution

  • Simonds, Christopher
1990
A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industry in Rhode Island.

The Battle of Gettysburg

  • Coffey, Vincent J.
1985
Presents the events in the Civil War leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg and describes that clash and its aftermath.

The Model T Ford

  • Simonds, Christopher
1991
Describes the development and production of the Ford Model T car and its effects on America.

The fall of Quebec, and the French and Indian War

  • Ochoa, George
1990
Describes the people, places, and events surrounding the French and Indian War.

The transcontinental railroad

  • Miller, Marilyn
1986
Describes the construction of the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, and other related railroads which joined the east and west coasts by meeting at Promontory Point, Utah, and views both the early days of railroads preceding that event and the effects of the transcontinental railroad thus formed.
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