Tells the story behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem about the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the document paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.

Tells the story behind Francis Scott Key's poem that became the national anthem of the United States. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the document paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.

A primary source is a document or record that provides a firsthand account of an event, a time period, or a particular subject. Primary sources are created at the time an event occurs. Find out more in Primary Sources, one of the titles in the Social Studies Essential Skills series.

Tells the story behind the law that forced thousands of American Indians out of their ancestral homelands. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the document paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.

Details the events of the Protestant Reformation, including early reformers, how it spread, and the Church's reaction, and includes samples of primary sources from the time period.

This volume examines the causes, circumstances, and effects of the Revolutionary War through the eyes of the Founding Fathers, generals, soldiers, and civilians.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the industrial revolution in the United States, as society changed from reliance on agriculture and trade to modern manufacture.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the Reconstruction, as the United States government and people worked to recover from the effects of the Civil War.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of slavery in the United States.