Presents a dramatic script set in 1807, and describing how young Brenton Dixon got a job aboard Robert Fulton's new steamboat. His work with Fulton turned into a lifelong career on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
Presents a play about two slaves named Ellie and Sam who escape slavery by following the underground railroad with the help of the Drinking Gourd constellation and the North Star. Includes color illustrations, a glossary, and a list of additional resources.
Presents a Reader's Theater script in which a young girl named Kristy finds her great-great-great grandmother's diary and learns how her life at the end of the nineteenth century changed with the arrival of the bicycle.
A dramatization of the sad and haunting Mexican legend, the Crying Woman, about the Spanish conquistador Hern?n Cort?s and a native Mexican woman who served as his translator.
Presents excerpts from the memoirs, letters, poetry, and journals of the men involved in, and protestors of the Mexican War, a conflict that arose out of U.S. President James Polk's expansionist policies.
A collect of photographs, letters, and articles describing the early days of flight in America, pioneers of aviation, and the role of airpower before and after World War I.
A collection of primary sources on crime and punishment in the U.S. from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, covering such topics as Puritan laws, Revolution-era punishments, and frontier executions.
