Explores Latino history from the Spanish-American War through the Great Depression, discussing factors in emigration from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Mexico; Latino communities and culture; World War I; and struggles with discrimination.
Presents more than seventy hands-on activities, games, and crafts designed to help children learn about the people, experiences, and events that have shaped Asian-American history.
Discusses the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607, and looks at how the English colonists weathered disease, starvation, winter storms, and Native American attacks to survive and thrive under the leadership of Captain John Smith.
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Analyzes the cruelty of medieval warfare by examining battles--such as the battle in Agincourt in 1415--sieges on cities, and campaigns during the Hundred Years War; and also describes how figures of chivalry were also merciless in their military pursuits.
Presents the processes of glassmaking through the ages from where in began in ancient Egypt, through the cathedral stained-glass windows of the Middle Ages, and to the modern use of glass to make such things as telescope lenses.
Examines the history and development of genetic fingerprinting and how scientists are using this knowledge in various fields including crime prevention and medicine.
Chronicles the 1961 freedom rides involving African-American and white activists who traveled on buses from Washington D.C. to the South in order to test the U.S. Supreme Court decision against segregation in bus stations.
