states

Take a colorful journey across the nation with Explore the U.S.A. Learn the geography, history, symbols, and interesting facts that make this state special. Explore the U.S.A. introduces beginning readers to the state of Maine through vivid images and engaging text.

Take a colorful journey across the nation with Explore the U.S.A. Learn the geography, history, symbols, and interesting facts that make this state special. Explore the U.S.A. introduces beginning readers to the state of Hawai?i through vivid images and engaging text.

Take a colorful journey across the nation with Explore the U.S.A. Learn the geography, history, symbols, and interesting facts that make this state special. Explore the U.S.A. introduces beginning readers to the state of Colorado through vivid images and engaging text.

Take a colorful journey across the nation with Explore the U.S.A. Learn the geography, history, symbols, and interesting facts that make this state special. Explore the U.S.A. introduces beginning readers to the state of Alaska through vivid images and engaging text.

A collection of humorous laws from across the country, along with information on why we have laws, how they are established, and why some of these may not be as funny as they seem.

Draws from an analysis of voting patterns, as well as the letters, writing, speeches, and campaigns of politicians in the lower houses of the various state assemblies between 1776 and 1878 to show that legislators formed into consistent blocs that displayed continuity and cohesion long before organizing into national political parties.

Explains how the United States Constitution came to be, including events leading up to the Constitutional Convention, and explores how the Constitution changed the way the United States was governed.

Explains the symbolism of the American flag, the Great Seal of the United States, the presidential flag and seal, and flags of the Civil War, and includes illustrations and brief descriptions of notable state flags and seals.

Provides information about lawmaking and the workings of legislatures, following a variety of fictional bills through the state legislative process as practiced in Colorado, and includes a case study of an omnibus crime bill introduced in the U.S. Congress in 1994.