history

Presents test-taking strategies, reviews key subjects, and provides full-length practice exams with answers and explanations.

This book takes a fun look at history by asking and answering a series of quirky yet thought-provoking questions.

Looks at primary and secondary sources as research tools, explaining what they are, and offering tips on how to really understand photographs, artifacts and objects, and documents. Includes exercises, illustrations, and checklists.

Uses simple text, colorful illustrations, and hands-on activities to help students learn about primary sources and how they are used in the research and writing processes.

Discusses the role of the librarian in promoting the use of primary sources in the classroom, and features collaborative lessons based on primary source research that may be adapted for use with students in grades four through twelve, each with assessment tools and organization strategies.

Offers a comprehensive and richly illustrated chronicle of contemporary world events.

Presents a collection of eight essays by philosopher Hannah Arendt, and includes a discussion of modern societies' loss of meaning in traditional areas of politics, justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory.

Examines some of the highlights of human achievement over the course of two thousand years, looking at topics in the areas of everyday life, the arts, science, medicine and health, politics and government, building and engineering, transport, war and weapons, communications and the media, and sports and leisure.

A collection of interesting trivia.

Profiles thirty-five separate situations in history where major political, military, scientific, or economic decisions led to disaster including George Armstrong Custer's fatal mistakes at the Little Bighorn and Japan's Isoroku Yamamoto's decision to bomb the naval base at Pearl Harbor.