Children’s / Teenage: General interest

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

By the beginning of the 1800s, America was a young country led by people who were ready to fight to defend American rights on the seas and at home.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

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This book profiles some of the greatest African-American athletes of the past 150 years.

This book is filled with fascinating stories, from the night a shy young woman's play changed Broadway to the day the most successful talk show host in history got her start.

African Americans have participated in all of the country's major conflicts, from the Revolutionary War to the present.

On November 4, 2008, Americans went to the polls and elected the first black president in the history of the United States.

Many people dream of owning their own business or making it to the top of the corporate ladder.

African-American Writers and Journalists spans nearly three centuries of literary and journalistic history, from a long-unpublished ballad composed in the 1740s by a slave named Lucy Terry to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison.

Some of them were elementary school dropouts.

African Americansfamous and anonymous alikehave helped shape popular musical genres ranging from jazz and blues to rock 'n' roll and rap.

Without education, it's very difficult to make the most of your talents and abilities.

The United States Air Force is among the best in the world.

The Rangers are some of the best-trained and most skilled soldiers in the Army.

Elite forces only want the best men in their ranks.

Operating behind enemy lines takes nerve, courage, and skill.

Known around the world for both their skill in combat and their unparalleled ability to survive in harsh, unforgiving conditions, the Green Berets are among America's greatest soldiers.

In September 2001, in response to terrorist attacks on New York and Washington D.

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All elite soldiers know that at times our towns and cities can be as dangerous as any wilderness.

The Parachute Regiment is one of the toughest units in the U.

Almost every country in the world has its elite units.

During the early 1990s, successful music producer Jermaine Dupri started So So Def Records.

When Shawn Carter, an aspiring rapper with the stage name Jay-Z, couldn't get his career off the ground at a major record label, he didn't get discouraged.

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Since the mid-1990s, Tim Mosleybetter known as Timbalandhas been one of the most in-demand and critically respected producers in the music industry.

Hip-hop started on the streets of New York with African American youths in the 1970s.

When it was founded in 1984, Def Jam was a tiny operation nestled in the college dorm room of Rick Rubin.

For a few years in the mid-1990s, a small music label called Death Row stood atop the hip-hop world.

Founded in New Orleans in the early 1990s, Cash Money Records faced an uphill battle as it struggled to gain respect.

The story of Bad Boy Entertainment is one of triumph and tragedy.

Hip-hop music began in the neighborhoods of the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s and grew to become a major cultural influence all over the world.

Historically, theocracy has been a fairly rare form of government.

In an oligarchy, political power rests with a small privileged group.

Monarchy is a form of government in which a hereditary ruler serves as head of state, typically for life.

How did large, complex states develop from small clans and nomadic tribes?

In the turbulent years after World War I, a new type of governing philosophy took shape in a handful of countries.

Today, the basic ideas underpinning democracy--that government exists for the benefit of the people, and that it must have their consent to be legitimate--may seem obvious.

For several decades during the 20th century, communism was one of the world's dominant forms of government.

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Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China has been a one-party state in which the Chinese Communist Party holds a monopoly of political power.

An immense land, China is approximately the same size as the United States.

Have you ever seen the boisterous lion dances or heard the multitude of firecrackers in Chinatown during the Chinese New Year?

Over the centuries, Chinese civilization has produced many important inventions and innovations, including paper, printing, porcelain, the magnetic compass, and gunpowder.

What would China's revolutionary leader, Mao Zedong, think if he were alive today?

In 1976, at the death of its longtime leader Mao Zedong, China was in a state of economic stagnation and social chaos.

China is one of the world's oldest uninterrupted civilizations, and the essential culture and identity of the Chinese people--the Chinese Way--was formed more than 2,000 years ago.

Although graced with picturesque beaches, lush rain forests, and abundant diamond mines, the tiny West African nation of Sierra Leone is a land haunted by tragedy.