Introduce students to an important Founding Father of the United States, James Madison. In this Spanish-translated biography, readers will learn about the inspiring life James Madison led as a member of the Continental Congress and as President of the United States. Students will learn about the Articles of Confederation, The Federalist Papers, and other significant documents and events to which Madison contributed.

HIS FAMOUS NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR-THE BLOODY STRUGGLE FOR THE RICHES OF THE WILD NORTHWEST AND THE DESPERATE FIGHT OF A MAN AND WOMAN TO HOLD IT FOR THE UNION.IN THE CIVIL WAR the Copperheads almost took over the state of Oregon. Big Adam Musick, river-boat pilot, went out to stop them. He caught Ringrose, the Copperhead leader, holed up in a dark warehouse beside the flooding river. "I came to get you, Ringrose," Musick said. "God damn you!" Ringrose...

Ghost Gold, first published in 1954, is the story of Arizona's Superstition Mountain and the Lost Dutchman Mine, a legendary mine containing a rich gold deposit (whether or not the mine does in fact exist remains an unanswered question). In a fascinating look at the mine's history, author Oren Arnold (1900-1980) recounts the known facts and legends about the exploration and 'discovery' of the mine and the fate of some it's the notable personalities...

The winning of the West was no child's play! It was war, war of the most brutal and inhuman type on the part of both Indians and whites. The Indian was fighting for his home, his commissary, and his lands. These lands were ceded him through solemn treaty with the United States government, and what man, of any nation (if he is any sort of man) will not fight 'for home and native land'? The white man fought to advance the cause of civilization, irrespective...

Sam Blowsnake (S.B.) was a member of the Winnebago tribe. In this autobiography, translated into English by Dr. Paul Radin, Crashing Thunder describes the life, ways, acculturation, and the peyote cult of his people. He tells about his brother-in-law the shaman, adolescence, initiation into the Medicine Dance, marriage and sexual proximity, entry into the white man's world, traveling with a circus, alcoholism, desire to count coup, the ensuing murder...

Chris Madsen was a greater peace officer than Wyatt Earp - greater by far. With these fighting words, Homer Croy launches into a fascinating story that has never before been told, the story of a great peace officer of the West who came to America from Denmark as a youth to fight Indians.

In March of 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands in an epic march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital in Montgomery, in what is often seen as the culminating moment of the Civil Rights movement. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law that year, and with Jim Crow eradicated, and schools being desegregated, the movement had supposedly come to an end. America would go on to record its story as an historic success. Recently, however, the New...

It took six years and cost $100 million, but on May 27, 1933, the gates swung open on the biggest birthday party the city of Chicago had ever seen. The Century of Progress Exposition, better known as the 1933–34 Chicago World's Fair, commemorated the amazing progress that had been made since the founding of the city just 100 years earlier. Many of America's largest companies joined with countries from around the world to showcase their histories...

Classical design formed our nation's capital. The soaring Washington Monument, the columns of the Lincoln Memorial and the spectacular dome of the Capitol Building speak to the founders' comprehensive vision of our federal city. Learn about the L'Enfant and McMillan plans for Washington, D.C., and how those designs are reflected in two hundred years of monuments, museums and representative government. View the statues of our Founding Fathers with...