Summary: Illustrations and text representing each letter of the alphabet present information about geographical locations, important industries, significant historical events, and extraordinary people in the state of Iowa.

Presents stories of significant events and people in American history, patriotic songs, and American folk tales and poems.

This introduction to the Aztec Empire describes key aspects of daily life, beliefs, and architectural accomplishments such as the Templo Mayor.

Traces the history of the United States from the first settlers to the early 1990s.

Describes the history of Ellis Island, a gateway for many immigrants coming to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and details the restoration of the landmark and its reopening as a museum.

"A young Aztec girl tells her little brother how their parents create beautiful painted manuscripts, or codices. She explains to him how paper is made from local plants and how the long paper is folded into a book. Her parents and others paint the codices to tell the story of their people's way of life, documenting their history, science, tributes, and sacred rituals. Duncan Tonatiuh's lyrical prose and beloved illustration style, inspired by the...

A history of the state of Texas including the Galveston hurricane of 1900.

A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event—the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps—six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over Eastern Europe, and ultimately to the Final Solution....

A chronologically arranged collection of short profiles of 100 notable American women, ranging from Virginia Dare to Oprah Winfrey.