history

Examines the history of the Shoshone people, originally from the Great Basin region of North America and discusses how the arrival of white settles changed and influenced their culture and daily lives.

Examines the history of the Pequot Indians of Connecticut, providing information about village life, celebrations, war, slavery, population decline, and the split in the tribe; and features a look at the status of the Pequot tribe as of the year 2000.

Explores how maps have been used throughout history, discussing how different cultures created their maps and how maps have evolved throughout history.

Describes the early maps of Ptolemy and chronicles the geographical explorations and technological developments that have led to the quality of modern world maps.

Examines the history, culture, religious beliefs, poetry, and contemporary life of the Crow Indians.

Examines the history of the Apache people who lived in the American Southwest for centuries and discusses the six different groups including the Chiricahua and Mescalero and how the arrival of white settles changed and influenced their culture and daily lives.

Explores the history and culture of the ancient Incas and examines their emperors and gods, religion and rituals, art and architecture, and their conquests and fall of their empire.

Examines the civilization of the ancient Aztecs from their emergence in the late 1300s, and includes information on how they built the large city of Tenochtitlan, with a particular emphasis on their social structure. Includes time line, glossary, and index.

Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America in the 1860s, becomes more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans.

Examines the life of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, discussing his youth and education, his work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and his assassination in 1963.