Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past

Jim Hawkins thinks his life is rather dull.

In the early nineteenth century, much of the land west of the Mississippi River was not yet part of the United States.

In the early nineteenth century, the United States was growing quickly, and many people wanted to set up homes and farms in new areas.

By the early and mid-nineteenth century, many US citizens were moving westward.

In 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall discovered that there was gold in the riverbeds of the Sacramento Valley.

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was a man of contradictions.

Theodore Roosevelt was thrust into the presidency after William McKinley's assassination in 1901.

When John F.

By the time he became the fourth president of the United States in 1807, James Madison was already a legend.

In 1789, when George Washington took office as the nation's first president, the United States was an experiment that could easily fail.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1932, the United States was in crisis.

In 1829 Andrew Jackson became the seventh president of the United States, the first who did not come from a wealthy, east coast family.

Abraham Lincoln was born to poor parents, in a log cabin on the western frontier of a young nation.

Why did Abraham Lincoln want to become president?

How did Harriet Tubman escape from slavery?

Water is essential to life on our planet.

Who were the first people to call the southeastern United States home?

Want to write a fantastic work of fiction?

Do you like to argue?

Want to write an outstanding opinion piece?

Want to write pieces that are informative and interesting?

What is alliteration?

Jim Hawkins thinks his life is rather dull.

This you should know: Gray squirrels are almost always larger, faster, and more aggressive than reds.

The Confederate prison known as Andersonville existed for only the last fourteen months of the Civil War-but its well-documented legacy of horror has lived on in the diaries of its prisoners and the transcripts of the trial of its commandant.

Turns traditional grammar lessons on end!

Do you think there's no more to know about homonyms and homophones?

April has a New Year's resolution to start the year off right-get back together with sweet, funny Billy.

Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories.

In 1638, John Lewger made a home in the wilderness of the New World, in a place called Maryland.

Join Olaf the young Viking on a voyage of discovery around his world.

Meet Felix, captured in Gaul in 180 CE and taken to Rome to train as a gladiator.

Step inside the lord's castle where Sir Gilbert is training to become a knight.

Team up with Dar, who lived around 15,000 years ago in the late Stone Age.

This you should know: Gray squirrels are almost always larger, faster, and more aggressive than reds.

How should we handle our money?

How should we handle our money?

Sex abuse.

Leaping from the Eiffel Tower in a wingsuit.

What is alliteration?

An ordinary construction project uncovers an extraordinary archaeological discovery.

Have you ever heard of a prickle of porcupines?

Do you enjoy snapping photos or taking movies of your adventures?

Told for the first time in picture book form is the true story of James Lafayette-an enslaved person who spied for George Washington's army during the American Revolution.

Mallory can't wait to play in her town's new girls' basketball league!

Jack's parents have bought a farmhouse in Nepal.

You're ready to write your research paper or presentation.

You've been assigned a research project.

What is advertising, and why should you care?

How do you find the right information sources for your research project?