history

Provides answers to more than 250 frequently asked questions on a variety of subjects including space, the world, history, nature, science, and technology.

Activities and projects, such as making time capsules and rubbings and tracing genealogy, demonstrate that learning about the past begins at home.

Discusses the use of children's literature in history and social studies programs at the elementary school level.

Describes the political, economic, social, and cultural systems of fifty countries of the world, and contains tables, charts, and lists that are linked with narrative accounts of each nation's peoples, history, government, society, and culture; arranged alphabetically from Afghanistan to Dominican Republic.

Presents lessons and cross-curricular activities on the lives and accomplishments of Americans Martin Luther King, Jr., Helen Keller, Amelia Earhart, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Walt Disney.

Tells the stories of twenty-six historical events in which human error has led to disaster; arranged chronologically, with photographs, illustrations, maps, and discussion of related issues.

The story of early Spanish explorations and settlements in California.