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Step back momentarily in time and explore the United States from the late sixties to the present day. Learn about the most timely issues of the United States with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Step back in time and experience the postwar era. The past will come to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

In 1954, Janie Scott has started boarding school in New Hampshire, but she often thinks about her friends, the apothecary and his son, Benjamin. On the other side of the world, Benjamin has become a doctor and is treating wounded soldiers in jungle warfare. Developing a magical way to communicate with Janie instantly has proved troublesome. More troublesome are the sinister forces moving in on Janie to take control of a new experiment of hers.

Shows how the aging of the baby-boom generation will transform America's homes, families, and businesses.

Learn about the powerful people who guided the nation through the postwar United States.

Presents opposing viewpoints on seventeen controversial issues in American history, such as the Cold War, the Kennedy assassination, immigration, and women's liberation, covering a period that ranges from 1945 to 2002.

In this valuable work of history, the author?s special achievement is weaving together the reports of famous and soon-to-be-famous individuals who experienced the war up close. We follow a young Walter Cronkite as he parachutes into Holland with a Canadian troop; photographer Lee Miller capturing the evidence of Nazi atrocities; the future Pope Benedict returning home and hoping not to get caught and shot after deserting his infantry unit; Audrey Hepburn no longer having to fear conscription into a Wehrmacht brothel; and even an SS doctor?s descriptions of a decadent sex orgy in Hitler?s bunker.