history

Vintage photographs and text describe the events and people associated with the Manhattan Project, organized to build the world's first atomic bomb in 1945.

An illustrated children's version of the journal of a young Dutch trader, Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, who journeyed into the land of the Iroquois Indians, a Mohawk tribe that controlled the trade routes in the area, in 1634, seeking to bolster the Dutch trade in what is now New York State.

Traces the history of Reconstruction, from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 1877, when federal troops were removed from the South.

Describes the role African-Americans played before and during the Civil War, the influence of the Underground Railroad, the effect of the abolition movement, and the enlistment of African-Americans into the Union Army.

Traces the history of the transatlantic slave trade and the development of slavery in the New World.

Provides a history of African-American culture from the early transatlantic slave trade to the mid-nineteenth century through four slave narratives.

Presents an overview of the history of the Navajo Indians, with a detailed account of how the United States Government, represented by Kit Carson, forced them on a 300-mile walk from their homeland in the Southwest to a prison camp at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, in 1864, and their eventual return home after the United States-Navajo Treaty of 1868.

Pictures, photographs, and text describe the history of American slavery and the Underground Railroad.

Presents an account of the eviction of 16,000 Cherokee Indians from Georgia and their forced relocation to Oklahoma in 1838.

Chronicles the history of television, describing the contributions of various figures to its invention and development; explaining how it became a way of life; and discussing its cultural and societal impacts.