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Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This colorful dictionary is a treasure trove of illustrated information about early life in colonial America. Topics include: colonial houses, a plantation and its outbuildings, wood and metalworkers and their tools, shops and shopkeepers, transporta
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A history of the American Civil War, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
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Description
Could you identify a sausage gun if you had to? How about a plate warmer or a well-sweep? Any idea how the term log-rolling really originated? Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911), a prolific popular historian and the first American to chronicle everyday life and customs of the colonial era, describes what these and many other obscure utensils were and how they were used. She also conveys a vivid picture of home production of textiles, colonial dress, transportation,...
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A history of the Great Depression, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village. The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and trans-phobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night. The riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and the surrounding community, followed by six days of protests, would go down in history as the most galvanizing period in this country's fight for sexual...
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Series
Language
English
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"This blend of authoritative historic overview and human interest stories recounts one of the most important eras in American history This educational activity book introduces young readers to the Industrial Revolution through the people, places, and inventions of the time, from the incredibly wealthy Rockefellers and Carnegies and the dingy and dangerous factories of the day to the creation of new forms of transportation and communication. By...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families...
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