Cornerstones of freedom. Second series
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The Library of Congress
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The NAMES Project
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The Smithsonian Institution
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The Golden Gate Bridge
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The 2000 presidential election
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Explores the relationship between the United States and Japan that led to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941, and to the United States' entry into World War II.
9) The FBI
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Introduces the history and function of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and presents facts about such topics as women and minorities in the Bureau, the FBI Academy, and how to become an agent.
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September 11, 2001
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The 1968 Democratic Convention
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The Alamo
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The Central Pacific Railroad
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The Challenger disaster
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Relates the history of race relations in the United States, focusing on the civil rights movement that began in 1954 with the Supreme Court ruling against segregation in public schools.
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Discusses the history of New Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, the relationship between the colonists and the native Wampanoag people, and the harvest festival which would later become Thanksgiving Day.
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Discusses the early nineteenth-century journey of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark through the Louisiana Purchase and beyond, for the purpose of exploring the land and establishing friendly relations with native peoples.
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The Mayflower Compact
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Old Ironsides
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The Pledge of Allegiance
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The Scopes trial
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The space race
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CHILDREN'S PRESS
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
48 PAGES ILLUS. $20.28. 2003005621. A DESCRIPTION OF THE HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NATIONAL MOUNUMENT KNOWN AS THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, WHICH WAS ESTABLSHED AFTER WORLD WAR I TO HONOR AN UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER FROM EACH WAR. DN
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The Vietnam Memorial
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Wall Street
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The abolitionist movement
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30) Air Force One
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Examines the history of Air Force One, presidents who used air travel beginning with Franklin Roosevelt, who was the first president to fly while in office, and the various aircraft designed for the Commander-in-Chief.
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Annapolis
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Benjamin Franklin and electricity
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The Boston Massacre
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Brown v. Board of Education: a civil rights milestone
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D-Day
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The Erie Canal
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The Iran-Contra scandal
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Rachel Carson and the environmental movement
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The surrender at Yorktown
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The Watergate scandal
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West Point
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The Wounded Knee Massacre
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Louis Armstrong and the jazz age
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Rosie the Riveter
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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The Great Depression
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The battles of Lexington and Concord
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Building the New York subway
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The great Mississippi flood of 1927
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The Manhattan Project
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