Presents a history of the women's suffrage movement and the passage of the nineteenth amendment giving women the right to vote, and discusses the 1869 passage making Wyoming the first state to permit women to vote, and more.
Presents a history of the Cherokee people who inhabited the Southern Appalachian region including Sequoyah, who developed a written language for his people, and describes their struggles against white settlement and their forced removal from their lands.
Presents a history of the Pueblo Indians who inhabited the southwestern United States, and describes how they protected their land from other tribes as well as from the Spanish, Mexican, and American governments, their traditional ceremonies and village life, and more.
Presents a short study of the Articles of Confederation, and describes British rule, drafting and ratification of the Articles, its power, and its weaknesses that led to a U.S. Constitution.
Relates the history of Thomas Jefferson's home in western Virginia, including what life was like there for himself, his family, their slaves, visitors, and descendants, and how Monticello became a museum.
An account of the first permanent English settlement in North America, with all its tragedies and disasters, established in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.
Describes adventures and disasters in the lives of people who rushed to the gold mines of California in 1848 and explains how this event sparked the state's development.
Examines the events surrounding the 1937 disaster of the German airship Hindenburg, and describes the aircraft's features and major flaws, its destination at Lakehurst, New Jersey, and other important dates and people.
Presents a history of the Creek, a native people of the southeastern woodlands, describing aspects of their culture, society, and religion, examining the effects of their encounters with white settlers, and discussing their modern-day status.
