history

Discusses free speech in the United States and examines important Supreme Court decisions dealing with the rights of free speech, free press, and peaceable assembly.

The history of social activism in the 1960s and the early 1970s including the Chicago Democratic Convention, the Freedom Rides, and the Wounded Knee demonstration.

A history of peace movements in the United States, including discussions of the principles behind nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience.

Text and accompanying photographs examine the how and why of the forced migration of Cherokee and Choctaw tribes and shows the impact it made on the lives of Native Americans.

An account of one of the largest groups of immigrants in the United States, with special emphasis on the recent history of the group. Also includes first-person narratives.

Surveys the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its achievements in the civil rights movement.

Traces the history and development of many kinds of communes in the United States from frontier days to the present.

Describes the lives and achievements of eight of the most important inventors of the nineteenth century, including Edison, Fulton, Hollerith, and McCormick.

Presents full-color and black-and-white illustrated photographs and drawings depicting the history of puppetry throughout human history.