We the people

Discusses the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968, with photographs, in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of civilians in a village, about which the public did not hear the truth until a year later, when the Peers Commission investigated the incident. Includes a glossary.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text profile the events surrounding the shootings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, in response to student protests against the Vietnam War.

Primary documents, photographs, timelines, and maps describe the Civil Rights act of 1964 which was designed to guarantee equal rights for all citizens.

Discusses the violent Pullman strike of 1894, which closed railroads across the midwestern United States and made the nation's leaders see the need for addressing the concerns of the country's workers.

Discusses how newsboys, and a few newsgirls, stood on street corners in the 1800s trying to sell newspapers, and decades later, "Newsies," as they were called, became famous.

Presents a history of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and describes the myth of its origin, the devastation caused by the fire, and the rebuilding process that began almost immediately.

An easy-to-read biography of the French nobleman who was a leader in both the American and French revolutions.

A history of the role of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments in the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War.

Tells the story of the sinking of the USS "Indianapolis" in 1945, Captain Charles McVay's court-martial for the disaster, and the U.S. Navy's official statement over fifty years later--and thirty-three years after his suicide--that he was not to blame.

Offers a brief overview of the Battle of Saratoga, which took place in September, 1777, and became one of the colonists' most important wins against the British in the battle for independence.