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

This easy-to-read biography describes the early lives of Richard Allen, one of the founders of the Free African Society, the first formally organized African American group in the United States; Harriet Tubman, a major conductor of the Underground Railroad; Mary Church Terrell, a founding member of the NAACP and a leading figure in the women

Provides step-by-step instructions for craft projects based on traditional crafts of the Tlingit, Haida, Inuit, and other Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Subarctic

This book about the culture and traditional crafts of Native Americans of four North American regions. The crafts in each book encourage creativity while readers learn about the rich history of Native American life

A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to a capture the true American spirit in verse