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American Legends: The Salem Witch Trials
*Includes descriptions of the trials and executions of the accused.*Includes testimony from some of the cases and the petitions of some of the accused asking for clemency.*Includes pictures depicting important people, places, and events.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading."More than...
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American Legends: The Three Stooges
*Includes pictures.*Includes the Stooges' quotes about their lives and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading."Oh, a wise guy, eh?" – Moe Howard"I'm a victim of soicumstance." – Curly Howard"I'm sorry, Moe, it was an accident!" – Larry Fine A lot...
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American Legends: The Wright Brothers
*Includes pictures of the Wright brothers, their planes, and important events. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. “For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and...
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American Outlaws: The Life and Legacy of Baby Face Nelson
America has always preferred heroes who weren't clean cut, an informal ode to the rugged individualism and pioneering spirit that defined the nation in previous centuries. The early 19th century saw the glorification of frontier folk heroes like Davy Crockett...
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American Outlaws: The Life and Legacy of John Dillinger
"I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here." (John Dillinger) America has always preferred heroes who weren't clean cut, an informal ode to the rugged individualism and pioneering spirit that defined the nation...
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America's Deadliest Hurricanes: The History of the Three Worst Hurricanes in American History
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Hurricanes have been devastating communities for thousands of years, bringing about various combinations of rain and wind that can do everything from...
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America's Deadliest Shipwrecks: The History of the SS Sultana, the SS Eastland, and the PS General Slocum
*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts of the disasters*Includes online resources and bibliographies for further reading*Includes a table of contentsThe Sultana is a historical footnote because of the Civil War, but it was also intimately tied to the war. Although Robert E....
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America's Favorite Comedy Acts: The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, and Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
*Includes pictures *Includes the comedy acts' most famous quotes *Includes bibliographies for further reading *Includes a table of contents There has been no shortage of comedy acts in American history, but the most famous and popular of them all is...
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America's Forgotten Slaves: The History of Native American Slavery in the New World and the United States
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading“The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, as an intimacy ought to be avoided." – A passage from a 1751 South Carolina lawIt has often been said that...
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America's Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the projects' construction*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsThe Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains the very epitome of contradiction. On the one hand, it...
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America's Legendary Frontier Towns: The History of Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the frontier towns written by people who lived there *Profiles famous Westerners like Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill, and more *Includes online resources and bibliographies for further reading *Includes a table of contents The Wild West...
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America's Most Famous Disappearances: The Mysterious History of the Disappearances of Jimmy Hoffa, Amelia Earhart, D.B. Cooper, Jean Spangler, and Dor
*Includes pictures *Discusses the popular theories behind each mystery *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It was the great mystery of its time and still reads like an episode of “Law and Order” today. In December 1910,...
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America's Most Famous Natural Wonders: The History of the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone National Park, and Yosemite National Park
*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts and descriptions of the natural wonders*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingEven for those who have never seen it, the Grand Canyon is perhaps the most appreciated and remarkable feature of the American landscape....
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America's Most Influential Jazz Artists
*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.” – Duke EllingtonLouis Armstrong once claimed that “Every time I close my...
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America's Most Influential Mountain Men: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Explorers Who Helped Chart Paths to the West
*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading By the golden age of the mountain man in the mid-19th-century, there were perhaps only 3,000 living in the West. Their origins were disparate, although they...
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America's Most Notorious Domestic Terrorists: The Life and Crimes of the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh
*Includes pictures *Includes the terrorists' quotes *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Most Americans old enough to follow the news during the 1990s are instantly familiar with the Unabomber, a name given...
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America's Most Notorious Natural Disasters: The Great Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the San Francisco Earthquake of
*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts of the disasters*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsIt had taken about 40 years for Chicago to grow from a small settlement of about 300 people into a thriving metropolis...
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The Amish: The History and Legacy of One of America's Oldest and Most Unique Communities
*Includes pictures *Includes Amish proverbs and descriptions of Amish life *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading “We live simply so others may simply live.” – Amish Proverb Back in the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation took Europe...
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The Amistad: The Slave Revolt and Legal Case that Changed the World
*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts written about the revolt on the ship*Includes excerpts from the legal cases and arguments*Includes a bibliography for further reading “25,000 slaves were brought into Cuba every year – with the wrongful compliance of, and personal profit...
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Esperanza Rising
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Press Esperanza Rising joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content! Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a...
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