Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

This collection of fables is set in India and features talking animals, both wise and cruel, to teach about the human world.

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.

What is a democracy?

What are the three branches of government?

What are elections?

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.

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.

How did Helen Keller become blind and deaf?

Why did Cesar Chavez want to help farm workers?

How did Sacagawea help the explorers Lewis and Clark?

What's so great about Wyoming?

What's so great about West Virginia?

What's so great about Vermont?

What's so great about Ohio?

What's so great about New Jersey?

What's so great about Nevada?

What's so great about Missouri?

What's so great about Michigan?

What's so great about Maryland?

What's so great about Louisiana?

What's so great about Kentucky?

What's so great about Kansas?

What's so great about Idaho?

What's so great about Hawaii?

What's so great about Delaware?

What's so great about Alaska?

Zebras are speedy, striped animals that roam the African grasslands.

African lions are powerful hunters.

Ring-tailed lemurs have bushy, striped tails.

Hippos are big animals that live in Africa.

Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world.

African elephants are the largest animals that live on land.

Chimpanzees live in forests in Africa.

South America is a remarkable continent, with its lush Amazon rain forest and its vibrant cities.

North America is an incredible continent, stretching from the polar ice cap almost to the equator.

Europe is a marvelous continent, made up of about fifty countries.

Australia is the smallest continent, known for having the largest coral reef in the world.

Asia is the world's largest continent, both in land area and in population.

Antarctica is a fascinating continent, with its South Pole research station and its thick sheets of ice.

Africa is an amazing continent, with its vast array of wildlife and its ancient monuments.

When Spanish explorers came to the Southwest region of the United States in the 1600s, they found over 20,000 American Indians already living in the region.

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

A long time ago, before the Plains region of the United States was divided up into states such as Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, this land was home to American Indians.

Long before the United States existed as a nation, the Northeast region was home to more than thirty independent American Indian groups.

California is a land of varied landscapes, climates, and cultures.