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With the infrastructure of America crumbling, the author, renowned engineer and historian Henry Petroski, takes a serious look at US roads and bridges. Highlights the necessity of maintaining our roads and bridges and calls citizens to take action to demand the government repair and maintain these infrastructures. Includes charts and photographs.

An introduction to the Great Depression, covering leaders, economics, the New Deal, and more. Includes teacher notes.

In this momentous work, acclaimed labor historian Joshua B. Freeman presents an epic portrait of the United States in the latter half of the twentieth century, revealing a nation galvanized by change even as conflict seethed within its borders. Beginning in 1945, he charts the astounding rise of the labor movement and its pitched struggle with the bastions of American capitalism in the 1940s and '50s, untangling the complicated threads between the workers? agenda and that of the civil rights and women?s movements. Through the lens of civil rights, the Cold War struggle, and the labor movement, American Empire teaches us something profound about our past while illuminating the issues that continue to animate American political discourse today.

"Explores the causes of the stock market crash in 1929 and the resulting Great Depression felt not only in North America, but worldwide. Source material, including posters, political cartoons, books, interviews, and articles show the devastation of the resulting mass unemployment, epidemic real estate foreclosures, and crushing poverty of those years."--Provided by publisher.

The Hershey Company has been selling chocolate and candies for more than a century. The story of the candy giant begins with the man who gave it is name: Milton Hershey. Born in rural Pennsylvania, Hershey spent years building a business whose sweet legacy continues to delight us today. Readers will love reading Hershey's life story and discovering his influence on the time in which he lived. Written to support elementary social studies curricula, this biographical title provides historical context to Hershey's life and accomplishments. Historical photographs, a timeline, and primary sources provide a comprehensive look why Hershey is considered a great entrepreneur.

Examines the American economy in the early twenty-first century from the posthumous perspective of Benjamin Franklin, discussing the national deficit, the issues that plague Congress, the American public in general, and other related topics.

Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and Republican candidate for president in 2008, explains why he believes it is vital to keep America strong and preserve its place as leader of the world, and offers strategies for achieving that goal by restoring economic vitality, improving education, rebuilding the military, creating jobs, fixing health care, and committing to citizenship.

Explores the principal economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Highlights the geography, government, cities, currency, people, customs, and culture that make Mexico unique in an increasingly globalized world.