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

Learn all about the Los Angeles Dodgers in this action-packed title.

Sometimes, the best hiding place is right in plain sight.

Thrilling upsets are part of what makes professional soccer so exciting!

Cell phones allowed people to connect on the go, and smartphones have transformed the way we share information.

At ninja competitions, athletes jump, climb, and flip their way through a twisted obstacle course.

Ten-year-old Siri and her little sister Miki live with their elderly father in an Arctic archipelago.

Bullets whizzed overhead, narrowly missing twelve-year-old Johnny Clem.

Do you know: Which team won the first NBA championship?

Follow four centuries of discovery and change, from the moment people set out to explore the world to turbulent times when it turned upside down-even for the people who stayed home!

For decades, the blasts and howls of the electric guitar have been some of the defining sounds of popular music.

What are checks and balances?

The Boston Red Sox are one of the most popular teams in Major League Baseball.

On a rainy spring night in 1777, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington and her horse raced through the woods.

The windswept prairie was once a dramatic landscape where dinosaurs roamed.

Pack your bags!

Would you like to go to Mexico?

See how homes in the United States have changed over the years.

In 1911 an American explorer came across an ancient city hidden high in the Andes Mountains of Peru.

At the Olympics, the best athletes in the world compete for the gold medal.

Explore some of history's biggest failures in medicine-from bloodletting to early remedies-and how some of those failures eventually led to success.

Triceratops had three horns on its head and hundreds of teeth in its mouth-but in spite of its fierce appearance, it ate plants!

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Ships, bridges, and tall buildings are marvels of engineering.

This carefully leveled text compares and contrasts what schools were like in the past to schools of the present!

From horse-drawn buggies to cars, this carefully leveled text compares and contrasts transportation of the past to transportation of the present!

The Manhattan Project produced the world's first nuclear weapons.

There's so much to discover in Kenya!

A founder of the United States turned cultural phenomenon thanks to the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton helped create American democracy.

What is the executive branch?

Enslaved people had few rights and suffered unspeakable hardships under slavery.

Discover a habitat filled with steaming swamps and crawling with dinosaurs fighting to survive.

In the United States, Black men are almost six times more likely to be imprisoned than white men.

Racism and profit were driving forces in the growth of slavery.

During World War II, Louis Zamperini survived a plane crash, 46 days stranded on a life raft at sea, and two years in a prisoner-of-war camp.

Aprenda todo sobre el mamut lanoso gigante que coexistió con seres humanos hasta que se extinguió.

Do you use a calendar?

Would you like to explore Israel?

Ten-year-old Siri and her little sister Miki live with their elderly father in an Arctic archipelago.

In August 1914, Austro-Hungarian troops attacked eight-year-old Momcilo Gavric's village in Serbia.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Most people imagine ninja as figures clothed in black, scaling a castle wall for a covert mission.

COVID-19 shocked the world in 2020.

When Dr.

What did Brontosaurus look like?

Discover the true stories of code breakers who worked behind the scenes during World War II.

What are the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the U.

Sneakers grew out of efforts to make more durable, more comfortable shoes-and became a major link between sports and fashion.

The Hoover Dam is one of the largest dams in the world!

You've probably heard of Albert Einstein, Frida Kahlo, or Louis Armstrong.

Anything can happen in a hockey game!