1865-1898

The 16-year-old king of New York's newsboys, a staunch supporter of Boss Tweed, enlists the help of his friends throughout the city to find out who is responsible for a disastrous fire.

Recounts the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the manhunt for his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Describes the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and discusses how the efforts of Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt to punish those responsible divided the war-torn country.

A documentary on the Apache warrior and his small band of followers who defied federal authority for more than twenty-five years.

A fictionalized account, told in free-verse poems, of a young girl's experience living through the 1888 "Great Blizzard" in New York City.

Traces the transformation of American economic life, social structure, political behavior, and patterns of ideas which took place in the four decades between the end of Reconstruction and the close of World War I, and allowed the nation to cope with the challenges of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration.

Suggestions and activities for teaching History of US in the classroom.

Returning to America after his long European sojourn, Charlie Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, and Charlie's widowed daughter seek financial and political advancement in the Centennial power centers, as republican idealism is giving way to imperial expediency.