America - still a young country by world standards - began as an experiment in self-government. This collection includes stories of America's people as they follow a path of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Abandoned by his father and losing his mother and foster mother to tuberculosis, Poe spends his childhood alone and sad.
Young children work with little hope of getting a formal education.
Helen learns to communicate through tantrums and violent outbursts.
American Lewis Hines photographs children in all sorts of manual labor jobs.
The Communist Chinese Forces (CCF) from Manchuria aid North Korea; they quickly overrun the US and their allies in the South.
Chuck wagons and barbed wire are like the bookends of America's cattle-drive era. The wagon was at the beginning while barbed wire was at the end.
Meet and see photographs of famous circus performers and animals.
The country comes to the aid of Chicago, but no one pays any attention to the other Midwest cities which also burn on October 8.
Jackie Robinson is politically independent but fights for civil rights.
SC Standards 8-4.2: Analyze how sectionalism arose from racial tension, including the Denmark Vesey Plot, slave codes, and the growth of the abolitio...
Two superpowers - the US and the USSR - send back-and-forth letters, each demanding that the other remove missiles from nearby countries.
Japanese-American business owners close and sell their business.
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