history

Examines the history of Irish immigration to the United States, discussing why the Irish came, what their lives were like after they arrived, where they settled, and customs they brought from home.

Photographs and text describe the life and achievements of the famous civil rights leader.

Examines the social and economic roles women played during the 1920s, and describes their participation as political activists, performers, writers, coeds, and in the world of business.

Presents a short study of the Renaissance Era in Harlem during the early twentieth century when African-American literature, art, and music crossed racial barriers and were accepted by white Americans.

Contains paintings of twenty-six notable jazz musicians, one for every letter of the alphabet, each accompanied by a poem that celebrates the featured musician's life and style.

Examines the life and works of nineteenth-century Father of Genetics, Gregor Mendel and discusses his experiments and theories and his influence upon the world of science.

Presents detailed illustrated instructions for building seven historic catapults that rely on using the basic skill of math and physics and includes a history of siege.

Chronicles the steps Germany took during World War II to rid Europe of all Jews, from forced emigration to extermination, discussing the invasion of Poland, Operation Barbarossa, and the Wannsee Conference and describing the Jewish ghettos, the Einsatzgruppen, labor camps, and the creation of the death camps.

In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.

Presents an account of the boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 by African-Americans who were protesting a policy that required African-Americans to sit in the back of a bus, or give up their seats for white people.