Introduces the history, geography, and economy of Columbia, and provides information about the country's religion, social customs and daily life, performing arts, literature, and other topics.
Provides an overview of the history and culture of Chile, and includes discussion of the country's religion, society, broadcasting and print media, literature, performing arts, and art and architecture.
Investigates the contradictions and tensions that marked social and political thought in America during the 1930s, a decade characterized by a desire to preserve and escape tradition.
A multicultural history of the United States, from World War II through the 1960's March on Washington, discussing the experiences of minorities and women during this period.
Julie and her cousins set out on an old-fashioned wagon train to celebrate the Bicentennial, and Julie is unprepared for the challenges of prairie life, but when she and her cousins have a chance to make history, Julie rises to the challenge.
In 1974 at her new San Francisco school, nine-year-old Julie does not want to tell her class about her parents' divorce, or to tell her sister about messing up her school assignment, but when she breaks her finger playing basketball and her whole family rallies around her, she realizes the importance of telling the truth.
Julie and Ivy try to come up with a unique way to educate the public on the region's endangered eagles and raise enough money to help the wildlife rescue center release two injured eagles back into the wild.
