Juvenile / History

The Ten-Year Century: Explaining the First Decade of the New Millennium

by James Sutherland

Remember worrying about the Y2K bug in 1999? Or life before Twitter? Ten years ago, September 11 was just another day, Facebook didn't exist, and Barack Obama was a little-known state senator. Some have called...

Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers

by Tanya Lee Stone

They became America's first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II. World War II is raging, and thousands...

The Military and Teens: The Ultimate Teen Guide

by Kathlyn Gay

The Military and Teens covers the major issues young adults should consider before making a decision to join the armed forces. Although each branch of the military provides print and electronic materials on...

The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure

by Martin W. Sandler

The dead of an Arctic winter. Whaling ships full of men, stranded in ice. Follow three rescuers in a race against time - and all odds - in this heartpounding true adventure. In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters...

Open the Door to Liberty

by Anne Rockwell & R. Gregory Christie

The story of revolution leaderToussaint L'Ouverture of St. Domingue (now Haiti).

The island now known as Haiti was once a French colony called St. Domingue, where white plantation owners forced hundreds of thousands...

Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (and What the Neighbors Thought)

by Kathleen Krull & Kathryn Hewitt

Every U.S. president is the focus of public scrutiny, but how well do we know these men? What kind of fathers do presidents make? Husbands? Neighbors? Other books focus on the historical achievements of those...

The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy

by James Cross Giblin

When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods. Award-winning...

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship

by Russell Freedman

Newbery Medal winner Russell Freedman recounts Abraham Lincoln's brief friendship with African American leader Frederick Douglass before and during the Civil War, narrated against the backdrop of race relations...

The Horse and the Plains Indians: A Powerful Partnership

by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent & William Munoz

From the award-winning nonfiction team that brought you The Buffalo and the Indians comes a new companion work that tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced...

Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies

by Marc Aronson

A fascinating and timely biography of J. Edgar Hoover from a Sibert Medalist. "King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. . . . You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent...

US Growth and Change in the 19th Century

by Brian Howell

Focuses on the growth and change of the United States in the 19th Century. This book, which follows a student learning about primary documents and artifacts on a field trip, will be an excellent selection for...

The US Civil War and Reconstruction

by Brian Howell

This book follows a student who is helping set up a museum exhibit about the Civil War. The student uses primary sources and artifacts to learn about the causes of the war, the hardships of the war, and how...

The United States Enters the 20th Century

by DeAnn Herringshaw

Chronicles the history of the United States as it entered the 20th Century. This book, which follows a student who is helping set up a museum exhibit, will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know...

The Great Depression and World War II

by Sheryl Peterson

Follows the history of the United States from the Great Depression through World War II. This book, which follows a student researcher investigating primary sources, will be an excellent selection for readers...

The Development of U.S. Industry

by Mary Meinking

Chronicles the development of industry in the United States. Presented as the diary of a student who visits historic sites on a road trip, this book will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know...

The Birth of the United States

by Linda Brennan

Following a student helping set up a museum display, this title chronicles the history of the United States, from the causes of the American Revolution to the birth of the new nation.

Postwar United States

by Maggie Combs

This book uses the narrative voice of an historian to take readers on a journey in US history following the end of World War II through the cold war.

Contemporary United States

by Kevin Cunningham

Following a student working on a school project, this engaging title takes readers on a journey of contemporary US history using primary sources and artifacts.

America: Three Worlds Meet

by J. Cosson

Following a student who is helping make a documentary film, this engaging title takes readers on a journey of US history from its beginnings to 1620, a period that the three worlds of Europe, North America,...

America's Colonization and Settlement

by Marcia Lusted

Following a student visiting a living history museum, this engaging title takes readers on a journey in US history from 1585-1763, the period of North America's Colonization and settlement.