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Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this up close look at the Louisiana Purchase, young future historians will learn how the United States bought this new territory and what it meant to the future of the U.S. Simple maps and approachable language help struggling readers understand key historical context.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny and illuminates the continuities between our own social and political divisions.
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Wiegl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the rush to claim and settle land in America's West during the 19th century, and provides details on the Mexican-American War, American Indian resistance, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Cerami illuminates the largest recorded real estate deal in history, when the US doubled its size on one April day in 1803. He focuses on the nine principal American and French players in the 30 months of negotiations leading to the sale.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A historian offers the biography of the soldier and explorer for whom Pike's Peak is named, describing his amazing expeditions through areas that would become modern-day Mississippi, Minnesota and Arkansas before being captured by the Spanish.
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