Provides a basic introduction to North America's geography, climate, and wildlife. Also offers insight into everyday life and culture in North American villages and cities. Includes several maps and photographs of the continent.
Describes achievements and innovations of the ancient native peoples of all of North America, from growing corn and playing ball games to creating number systems and building such cities as Teotihuac?an and Cahokia.
the untold history of the peopling of the Americas
Menzies, Gavin
2013
Presents the idea that seafarers reached the North American continent thousands of years earlier than previously thought and discusses that they possibly developed far more sophisticated civilizations than previously imagined.
Presents illustrated overviews of the physical geography, history, population, culture, society, politics, and economy of northern America (the U.S. and Canada); discusses the region's future; and includes a chronology and a further reading list.
Presents an account of the colonization of North America, telling the story of St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in America, and exploring early Spanish, English, and French settlements.
A four volume set that contains over 600 articles and over 200 illustrations on significant occurences in the history of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean from 15,000 B.C. to 1996.
the atlas of the great migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the present
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck
1995
Tells the story of the settling of North America, from the hunters who first crossed over from Siberia to the masses of immigrants in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Standard Deviants act as tour guides as they study the diverse histories, cultures, and physical characteristics of North America, Europe, and Africa.
