Encourage youngsters to learn about people and events in American history by making and reading their own Little Books. Each title provides reproducible materials for 16 Little Books as well as a timeline, a U.S. map, and correlations to NCSS standards.

Encourage youngsters to learn about people and events in American history by making and reading their own Little Books. Each title provides reproducible materials for 16 Little Books as well as a timeline, a U.S. map, and correlations to NCSS standards.

Provides students with simple, fact-filled books they can make as they focus on important people, places and events in United States history.

We have all heard of famous people like Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Cleopatra, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and William Shakespeare. But what do we know about their childhoods? Play a game and guess which celebrity is hidden on each spread. Clues from their childhood will help you to discover them! There are twenty-five celebrities waiting for you to uncover them. Rulers, inventors, scientists, musicians, and many others lead you through their childhoods and show you what life was like back then, what they liked to play with, and what their interests were--but they will keep their names to themselves. Each character gives hints to help you figure out who they are. Then lift the flap and find out whether you guessed correctly.

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

THE STORY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE PLAYED IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Including cross-references, quote boxes, and lists, this volume features over 1,000 biographies of important people from all parts of the world and all time periods. 550 illustrations, 500 in color.