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Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin was an important statesman, inventor, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. But did you know he started the first public library in America?Ben Franklin was
On February 20, 1962, as millions of Americans waited anxiously, astronaut John Glenn blasted off in his rocket ship, Friendship 7, and became the first American to orbit the Earth.Although the risks
She just wouldn’t get up—and with that simple, courageous act Rosa Parks struck a blow against injustice. Parks showed what one person, without guns or violence, could do to change the co
In 1933, at the age of four, Anne Frank and her family fled from the Nazis in Germany and sought safe haven in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 1940, when the Germans invaded the Netherlands, the Frank
Long ago, when hardly anyone knew how to read or write, people recited stories by heart. They sat around the hearth at night, telling of heroes and monsters, great battles fought, and fortunes
Based on new studies and theories from the field, an action-packed tale tells the story of a young Pteranodon from its first flight, first hunt, and first near brush with death--evading raptors and a
From his childhood years in Ohio and his service as a fighter pilot in two wars to his training for his space flight and beyond, the incredible story of this accomplished pilot, veteran, astronaut, an
The essential primer on the most influential American documents between 1831 and 1900The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the renowned
The essential primer on twenty of the most influential American documents between 1620 and 1830The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the
The essential primer on twenty of the most influential American documents between 1620 and 1830The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the