Describes the daily lives, social roles, and contributions of women living during the revolutionary period.

Photographs, essays, diary excerpts, and interviews depict Anne Frank

Includes bibliographical references and index. Provides instructions for growing houseplants from pieces of potatoes, corn, watermelons, and other kitchen scraps.

Recounts the journey of Black slaves to freedom via the underground railroad, an extended group of people who helped fugitive slaves in many ways.

Covers the history of early man in America from the earliest known sites to approximately 1492 A.D.

The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting narrative that recreates the event with drama...