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Get to know one of the greatest presidents in American history, Abraham Lincoln, through his speeches, writings, and letters.Author Milton Meltzer provides historical context for Lincolns words, anddramatic illustrations byStephen Alcorn complete this handsome volume, now available in paperback.

In this classic novel about the Underground Railroad, Josh, a teenage logger on the Ohio River, discovers his life's true mission as an abolitionist after his first encounter with a runaway slave.

Historian and biographer Milton Meltzer draws heavily upon eye-witness accounts, memoirs, letters, diaries, poems, and songs to graphically depict the dramatic history of the Jews of Eastern Europe and their journey to America. This award-winning writer offers a well-researched history of this important era in American Jewish history.

Mark Twain's life--one of the richest and raciest America has known--is delightfully portrayed in this mosaic of words and more than 600 pictures that capture the career of one of America's most colorful personalities. The words are Twain's own, taken from his writings--not only the autobiography but also his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, and fiction. The illustrations provide the perfect counterpoint to Twa...

A humble shoemaker hears the bells ringing at Lexington and responds to a call to battle. An aide to George Washington recounts his feelings as he crosses the Delaware. A young surgeon describes in his diary the horror of an army camp, where the spread of smallpox, frostbite, and starvation are deadlier than any sword. These are the voices of the American Revolutionaries.Most of us know about the American Revolution only from secondhand accoun...

A companion to Never to Forget, this is the story of those Gentiles who sought to rescue their Jewish neighbors from annihilation during WWII. "A story that needs telling".--School Library Journal, starred review. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

By the time World War II was over, the dead included six million Jews--killed specifically because they were Jewish. This collection of first-person accounts of the Holocaust serves as a timeless reminder of how Europe's Jews reacted to the threat of extermination, exphasizing the wide variety of resistance efforts. Illustrated with photographs.

Skillfully blending historical fact and fast-paced fiction, Meltzer delivers a dramatic, insightful novel set during the Great Depression, and brings alive a period when families desperately tried to cope as hopelessness gripped the nation. Includes an Authors Note.

Sohbet, kahkaha, kadeh, hatta bir türkü esliginde dostlarimla birlikte olmayi severim. Ben Franklin, uzun ve zengin cesitlik meslek yasantisi boyunca hayatin siradan zevklerden müthis tad aldi. Ondaki bu insani özellik, Franklini kolay ulasilabilir, uysal kisiliklerden biri haline getirmistir. Matbaaci cirakligindan dünyaca ünlü bilim adamligina, yeni Amerikan ulusunun kuruculugu rolüne uzanan yolda Amerikanin ilk kendi kendini yetistiren insa...

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A landmark work on one of the most important, but least written about Indian Wars, Hunted Like a Wolf chronicles the Second Seminole War. From 1835 to 1842, Washington waged a violent war upon the Seminole and their allies in Florida, using any measure, including treachery and fraud, to drive them from their lands. A ragged, starving handful of guerrillas, the Seminole Indians and blacks managed to resist against the invading American army ten...

Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution, " but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some periods and declined in other

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This is a chronicle of a life in photography. Detailing the adventures of Dorthea Lange, the book raises questions about the uses and effectiveness of the medium and examines her images of anxious mothers and hungry infants and sullen men waiting in long city breadlines.