America is a nation of immigrants. American flags in the wind. They form the background to smiling faces on billboards. Posters sprout out on lawns around the neighborhood

An introduction to the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross

Describes the peaceful marches in the United States on behalf of civil rights for blacks from the 1950s to the 1990s including the March on Washington and other important marches

Academy Award winners Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger star in the triumphant true story of a boxer who fights to win a second chance for his family and becomes an unlikely national hero

Robin Williams is in his edgily desperate mode as a Queens car salesman whose life is in turmoi

Crossroads Cafe and DVD offers a versatile alternative to videotape that is user-friendly, intuitive and fun. Play an entire episode or go direct to the World Play and Culture Clip segments. A simple menu system allows you to select by lesson name and number. Easy-to-read screen identify each episode, and remind learners visually where they shoul be in the correlated Photo Stories and Worktext

More than 2000 nuclear test explosions were conducted between 1945 and 1996, the year when the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was concluded. The Treaty bans all nuclear explosions on earth. The film depicts the activities of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in establishing a global verification regine to monitor compliance with the Treaty. It presents the challenging work at some of the monitoring facilities and at the International Data Centre in Vienna, where the data generated by the facilities are received, processed and analysed

Packed with reproducible primary sources—from an NAACP pamphlet to Jim Crow-era signs—this collection of authentic documents will capture students

Packed with reproducible primary sources—from the Mayflower Compact to political cartoons about the Stamp Act—this collection of authentic documents will capture students’ interest in the events and people of Colonial times. Teaching materials provide background information, document-based discussion questions, and reproducibles that help kids analyze and evaluate each historical document. For use with Grades 4-8