Bullied relentlessly, Hiram Goldfarb, a Jewish immigrant in nineteenth-century New York City, learns bareknuckle fighting from a former slave wanted for a heinous crime in the South.
In 1874 Manhattan, Luc, sixteen, at nearly seven feet tall and seemingly impervious to pain, has become a local boxing star but when kangaroos are introduced to the ring, Luc's tender heart leads him to run away to save a joey.
In nineteenth-century New York City, teenaged Leung promises not to compete in bareknuckle boxing matches until he fixes his sloppy technique, but when his uncle's gambling debts get out of control, Leung must enter the ring to save him.
Looks at important writings and moments in American history during the build-up to the Civil War and the war itself, the era of reconstruction, and the Indian Wars that followed.
Seventeen-year-old Morgan Kinneson, a member of an abolitionist family in 1864, heads south after the murder of a slave in his care in search of his brother, a Union doctor who has gone missing in the midst of the Civil War, pursued by a group of escaped convicts who want the mysterious stone that has fallen into Morgan's hands.
the gilded age police scandal that launched the progressive era
Czitrom, Daniel J.
Chronicles the history of the first major crusade to cleanup New York City of crime after Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, a Presbyterian minister, went out into the city in diguise and gathered inforamtion against the corrupt police department.
When Scarlett O'Hara's beloved plantation life is destroyed by the Civil War, she single-mindedly rebuilds her privileged place in society, but loses her true love in the process.
Examines significant events in the history of the United States, focusing on the progressive movement that occurred at the turn of the twentieth century, ushering in social, political, and economic reforms.
Newland Archer is newly married to May Welland, but is in love with Ellen Olenska, an old friend who has returned to town. He and Ellen pursue this love, even though it could cause scandal in their upper-class New York society.
Presents an overview of the events of the four-month war in 1898 which the U.S. gained control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, including information on Teddy Roosevelt and Rough Riders.
