'The Attack on Pearl Harbor' examines the history leading up to the attack, the specifics of the raid itself, and the consequences of what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called 'a date which will live in infamy'. Suitable for use in secondary education, the book features a timeline and footnotes.

This secondary education text examines the historical circumstances leading up to the destruction of the Maine, the immediate aftermath, and the long-term consequences.

'The California Gold Rush' explores how this pivotal era introduced new ideas about work and health, luck and greed, and success and failure, into the way Americans looked at their lives, their livelihoods, and most of all, themselves.

Though the present-day United States stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, the shape of the nation has shifted many times over the course of its history. The year 1803 marked one of the greatest changes, when President Thomas Jefferson purchased 828,000 square miles from France's Napoleon Bonaparte. This area of land, known then as the Louisiana Territory, today comprises all or part of 15 states. Buying the territory was no easy task, however. France was wrangling with political and military battles, the deal required the talents of two of Jefferson's most talented diplomats, and...

'The Outbreak of the Civil War' examines the factors that led the nation to war. At the heart of these were differing positions on slavery, states' rights, and the future shape of the US. This secondary education text includes excerpts from primary source documents, a chronology and a timeline.

This title details the trials faced by a group of settlers trying to journey west from Illinois to California in the mid-1840s. Stranded in a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada Mounatians, the party resorted to cannibalism to survive.

When it was completed in 1825, the Erie Canal caused a great sensation. This book shows how this manmade waterway that extends from Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York, to the Hudson River in Albany helped shape the future of the Empire State.

During the 19th century, hardy pioneers used the Oregon Trail to migrate to the Pacific Northwest. This book focuses on the period of 1840-1859, when approximately 52,000 pioneers moved to Oregon, and nearly five times that opted to move to California or Utah.

From April 1860 to October 1861, the mail service known as the Pony Express operated between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. This book explores the history of the predecessor to modern mail delivery and its importance in keeping communication open from coast to coast.

This book for young readers details the history of the state of Florida, beginning with the Native American population, Spanish colonialism and then the admittance to the Union in 1845.