history

Photographs and simple text introduce children to muscle cars, providing a brief history, and describing the parts of muscle cars.

Presents a brief biography of submarine and steamboat engineer Robert Fulton.

Traces the early colonization of New England by the Pilgrims in 1620, their struggles, association with the natives, and the Puritan legacy.

A biography of the persistent inventor whose interest in electricity led him to develop an electronic television system in the 1920s.

Describes the founding and history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and discusses related topics including Puritan clothing, the Wampanoags, Increase Mather, scurvy, and Paul Revere's ride.

Discusses ten of the greatest professional hockey teams in the history of the game, and explains what made each one great.

Tells the story of the Dutch colony known as New Netherland and includes information on related topics and figures such as seventeenth-century Dutch ships, the Hudson River, Native Americans, and Peter Stuyvesant.

Presents information, in simple text and photos, on the Washington Monument, including its history, and construction.

Traces the history and development of vehicles and other machines used in warfare, from the Sumerian chariots to the computer-controlled devices of the twenty-first century.

Noah, setting out for the Klondike in search of gold with his father in the 1890s, smuggles his cat Shadow into his pack against Pa's wishes, but the pet turns out to be just what they need to survive. Includes a historical note about the Klondike Stampede.