What Was the Great Depression?
On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to...
View full detailsOn October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to...
View full detailsOh, rats! It's time to take a deeper look at what caused the Black Death--the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history.While the coronavirus CO...
View full detailsSaddle up and get ready for a ride back into the wild and wooly past of the American West.The west was at its wildest from 1865 to 1895, when terri...
View full detailsSomething wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began...
View full detailsIt was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does...
View full detailsReaders will want to grab a telescope and explore the night skies after finishing this overview of our solar system.Our solar system consists of ei...
View full detailsLearn about the Eiffel Tower, beloved and iconic symbol of Paris, France, and one of the most recognizable structures in the world!When the plans f...
View full detailsMore than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build...
View full detailsAs a field reporter in the 1960s, Gloria Steinem worked hard to dig up important stories. She went undercover to expose the grim realities of gende...
View full detailsHow did Jackie Chan become one of the most recognizable and beloved actors in the world? Find out in this exciting biography of this martial artist...
View full detailsWhile other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop...
View full detailsLearn how a young girl who lived on a Christmas tree farm grew up to become one of the most celebrated musical artists of the twenty-first century...
View full detailsGet to know the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader and one of the most popular world leaders today.Two-year-old Lhamo Thondup never imagined he w...
View full detailsFilled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe’s ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was o...
View full detailsFind out how a journalist and sportsman became one of the most famous American novelists of the twentieth century in this new addition to the #1 Ne...
View full detailsLike Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born i...
View full detailsIsaac Newton was always a loner, preferring to spend his time contemplating the mysteries of the universe. When the plague broke out in London in 1...
View full detailsJoan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the ...
View full detailsMeet the man who created Alice, the Mad Hatter, and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum!Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematicia...
View full detailsLearn how Fred Rogers, a minister and musician from Pennsylvania, became one of America's most beloved television personalities and everyone's favo...
View full detailsOver a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went th...
View full detailsIn 1978, Sally Ride, a PhD candidate at Standford University, responded to a newspaper ad to join the US astronaut program. She was accepted and be...
View full detailsHappy 90th birthday, to one of the world's most beloved icons of children's literature, Winnie-the-Pooh! The adventures of Pooh and Piglet, Kanga a...
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