Weitzman, David L

Explores the friendship between naturalist John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt and how it brought about government protection of America's wilderness.

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

A guide to the study of America's industrial past through examination of early engines, furnaces, locomotives, windmills, foundries, canals, bridges, and other industrial antiquities.

A young boy describes his life on the family farm in North Dakota in 1912, particularly the arrival of a new steam-powered threshing machine.

Presents biographical profiles of twenty-eight anthropologists and archaeologists, including Jane Goodall, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Leakey.

Meticulously illustrated, this book explains how an eight-wheeler was built, taking the reader through the entire construction process, from draftsmen's drawing to the finished locomotive.