united states

Describes the historical context of the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case involving Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu and the United States that allowed the removal and imprisonment of Korematsu and other Japanese-Americans because of military necessity.

In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.

Amantha Starr, born and raised by a loving father on a plantation in pre-Civil War Kentucky, embarks on a lifelong search for answers about her tangled past when she learns, upon her father's death, that her mother was a slave and that she, too, is about to be sold into servitude.

Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.

Examines how Americans of all races and classes sought to control their lives and their government in the face of the political, institutional, and social transformations that took place between 1890 and the end of World War I.

Provides an overview of the American Civil War, including its causes and consequences.

A collection of narratives and political cartoons that reflect the social, political, and cultural atmosphere of Civil War America.

Chronicles the events leading up to the firing of the first shot of the Civil War on April 12, 1861.