Learn about Fannie Sellins and her contributions to help get fair wages and decent working conditions in the garment and mining industries.

Hundreds of American soldiers were already dead. Battlefields in Massachusetts and New York were soaked in the blood of American patriots. And 11-year-old Nathaniel Knox was in the midst of it all, trapped in a swamp and fighting for his life. The air was thick with smoke and gunpowder. Bleeding soldiers screamed in agony. Through the trees, Nate saw the line of British redcoat soldiers - at least 100 men. Their blood-colored uniforms seemed to glow...

For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress-even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper deftly...

This picture-book is the biography of Red Cloud, the story of one of the most controversial leaders in Native American history.

Biography of British West Indies born Alexander Hamilton, who was a man of action, also honorable, ambitious and loyal to his adopted country the United States.

Brief portraits of women from the period of the Revolution and early United States.

"This book details major events of the U.S. Civil War, as well as the war's cultural impact"--Provided by publisher.

Publisher Annotation: With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community.

Presents details of daily life of American children during the period from 1775 to 1800.