In a lively question and answer format, readers are taken behind the locked doors of the Philadelphia State House during the dramatic Constitutional Convention

A provocative question-and-answer format and a multitude of facts bring to life the Oregon Trail in the 1840s. New larger format with full-color illustrations.

Describes conditions for the civilians in both North and South during and immediately after the war

This book provides a unique opportunity to enrich the young reader`s understanding of American history. 52 entertaining questions and answers about what it was like to live in the New England colonies during the years 1650 - 1730

The third title in a series about Native American people, this book reveals what it was like to grow up in a Cherokee family long ago. Full-color illustrations by a Cherokee artist complement facts about Cherokee games, language, dwellings, medicine, names, and more

Describes, in question and answer format, the great migration of immigrants to New York

The history of the Hopi (meaning "wise and beautiful people") is explored through a series of questions and answers, such as "Would you live in a teepee?" and "What did girls have to learn?"

Before 1775, thirteen colonies in America belonged to England. This book tells about the fight to be free and independent

This book tells you what it was like to grow up on the frontiers of Kentucky and Indiana, in the prairie town of New Salem, Illinois, and in the city of pringfiel,Illinois, during the early 1800 s

This book tells about the hard life that a slave faced, and how slaves found ways to overcome some of the hardships. It tells how the cruel system of slavery began- and how it ended