Todras, Ellen H.

Explains in a controlled reading level text how the battle of Gettysburg affected the growth of the American nation and the principles of American democracy. Includes excerpts from primary source documents, a glossary, and index.

A biography of Angelina Grimke, a devout Christian who defied her family and her southern roots to champion the cause of abolition in the mid-1830s, becoming the first woman ever to address an American political body, and sowing the seeds of the women's rights movement.

Provides information about explorers, trappers, and pioneers during the early history of the United States, and includes reconstructions and original artwork from the period.

Uses original photographs, archival material, and historically accurate text to explore what it was like to travel West during the great migration of the 1800s and to describe the challenges settlers faced.