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

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?

Jim Hawkins thinks his life is rather dull.

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.

"e;I am not a criminal, because I destroyed that which was evil.

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.

Sex abuse.

Leaping from the Eiffel Tower in a wingsuit.

An ordinary construction project uncovers an extraordinary archaeological discovery.

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.

You might be a fan of Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

On December 5, 2013, former South African President Nelson Mandela passed away at the age of 95.

"e;Dino"e; Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"e;Dino"e; Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"e;Dino"e; Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"e;Dino"e; Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"e;Dino"e; Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

"e;Dino"e; Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct.

Was an innocent man wrongly accused of murder?

In the spring of 1607, an English ship landed at modern-day Virginia.

In September 1783, the United States signed a peace treaty with Great Britain.

By the 1760s, most American colonists had become fed up with British rule.

Hundreds, even thousands, of years before Europeans arrived in North America, American Indians had made their homes here.

Wrapping your head around centuries of American history can make you dizzy.

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.

In 1936, the New York Yankees wanted to test a hot prospect named Joe DiMaggio to see if he was ready for the big leagues.

Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all.

What happened when a former enslaved man took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans?

YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistOne of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Public Library, School Library Journal, Science Books & FilmsBright white teeth.

On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington.

Kids study US history, but do they know what life long ago was really like?

In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father's barbershop.

Match your wits against a band of pirates on the high seas and try to defeat them-or join them!

Taking a rare look beyond the myths and legends surrounding Sacagawea's life, this extraordinary illustrated history recounts the known facts about a remarkable woman and her contribution to one of America's greatest journeys of exploration.

A Batchelder Award Honor BookWhen Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother.

In 1946, as part of the Cold War arms race, the US military launched a program to test nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean.

Earthquakes.

Imagine a peaceful voyage at sea, with puffy clouds overhead and the gentle rise and fall of the waves.

Would you eat a giant spider?