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  • Guardians of the Home

    Women's Lives in the 1800s

    by Matthew Strange ...
    Series series Daily Life in America in the 1800s
    While often behind the scenes and hidden from history, women in 1800s America worked side by side with men in building our nation. On the frontier, strong, capable women worked as hard—or harder—than their men-folk, taming the land and raising the crops while shouldering the responsibilities of keeping house and caring for the children. The life of the farm wife in the settled parts of the country ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • America at War

    Military Conflicts, Home and Abroad, and Daily Life in the 1800

    by Matthew Strange ...
    Series series Daily Life in America in the 1800s
    From an isolated and inward-looking new nation clinging to the East Coast, America in the 1800s grew in size, strength, and military might. From the War of 1812 to the century-long campaigns of conquest against Native American peoples, territorial expansion through war with Mexico to the great national tragedy that was the Civil War, American soldiers and sailors forged a tradition of pride and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Jump Ropes, Jacks, and Endless Chores

    Children's Lives in the 1800s

    by Matthew Strange ...
    Series series Daily Life in America in the 1800s
    For most of the 1800s, children were considered "small, unruly adults" who needed to be strictly disciplined and put to useful work as soon as they were able. The very concept of childhood itself, as a carefree, innocent time, is a result of increasing economic stability and changing family roles in the 1800s. Before child welfare laws were enacted and compulsory education enforced, children made ... Read more

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  • Bleeding, Blistering, and Purging

    Health and Medicine in the 1800s

    by Matthew Strange ...
    Series series Daily Life in America in the 1800s
    Medicine developed into a science in the 1800s, but it was a long evolution from folk remedies and superstition to a modern understanding of how the human body works and how disease is spread. Throughout much of the century, the life expectancy of the average American was decades shorter than it is now. A lack of understanding of simple hygiene contributed to the early death of many women after ... Read more

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  • Benjamin Franklin: The New Prometheus

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of Benjamin Franklin, the most famous and highly regarded American in Europe during colonial times and the Revolutionary War. One of the Founding Fathers, Franklin was instrumental in virtually every phase of the birth, creation and establishment of the United States. However, Franklin was a man of many talents, a true American Leonardo da Vinci who excelled in many fields. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Fifty Cents and a Dream

    Young Booker T. Washington

    by Jabari Asim, Bryan Collier ...
    Booker dreamedof making friends with words,setting free the secretsthat lived in books.Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a ... Read more

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  • Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Did the Continental Army Try and Stage a Coup After the Revoluntionary War?

    by Kate Cooch ...
    A 2200 word history short about a possible military coup after the Revolutionary War. The Society of the Cincinnati was formed by disgruntled members of the Continental Army as the Revolutionary War drew to a close. They were unhappy with lack of pay and supplies promised to them by the Continental Congress. Was formation of the Society an attempt to form a milita junta to rule the new country? ... Read more

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  • Benjamin Franklin: A Short Biography

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    by Richard Allen ...
    Series series Short Biographies of Famous People
    There are people who have played a significant role in revolutionizing their fields of expertise throughout history. In addition to Ted Turner's contribution to the development of contemporary media, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein both transformed the industrial world.The American legend Benjamin Franklin is one of the comparatively few people who have approached and revolutionized so many various ... Read more

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  • The Declaration of Independence

    Introducing Primary Sources

    by Kathryn Clay ...
    Series series Introducing Primary Sources
    The Declaration of Independence has represented American freedom since Thomas Jefferson wrote it more than 200 years ago. Using primary sources, young readers hear the story behind one of America's most important documents from the people who were there when it was signed. Engaging text, colorful images, sidebars, and a variety of primary sources introduce readers to the Declaration of ... Read more

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  • Little Known Facts About the Emancipation Proclamation, The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, and the War of 1812

    by Melissa Cassel ...
    The Emancipation Proclamation was a military policy. The Proclamation helped to preserve the Union. President Lincolns advisors were not for the Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the top ten documents in America. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Benjamin Franklin

    An American Life

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • 101 Amazing Abraham Lincoln Facts

    by Jack Goldstein ...
    Do you want to know the important facts about Abraham Lincoln’s Life? Amongst many other things, the 16th US President abolished slavery, made the Gettysburg Address and was assassinated whilst in office. This easy-to-digest eBook gives you the information you need to know about President Lincoln in handily organised sections.Whether you are writing a history project on ‘Honest Abe’ or you just ... Read more

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