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Publisher
Avalon Travel
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A guide to traveling the United States on two-lane highways, featuring descriptions of eleven routes that cross the country from north to south, and from east to west, highlighting the attractions along each route, and including over 125 maps.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Draws chapters from Sir Winston Churchill's four-volume "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" to present his personal vision of American history up to the twentieth century, and includes essays and speeches by Churchill that continue the history to the dawn of the Cold War.
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Language
English
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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup is a memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, DC, as well as describing at length cotton cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.
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Language
English
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Describes the events of the American Revolutionary War and explains the significance of the war today. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspective of a young girl, a patriot fighter, and a loyalist determined to keep America under British rule.
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Language
English
Description
Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) presented an essay at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 that would change the study of American History forever. This essay would ultimately be published with twelve supporting articles to form "The Frontier in American History". Turner was an innovator in that he was one of the first to call attention to the Frontier as an integral part of the study of The United States of America. Turner himself grew up on...
78) Weapons
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Describes the weapons of the Civil War, and includes firearms, bombs, land mines, artillery, swords, and submarines.
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