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The red badge of courage |
During his service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war. |
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The right stuff |
The lives of the astronauts are viewed, as well as the politics involved. |
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The rock and the river |
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party |
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Snow in August |
In postwar Brooklyn, eleven-year-old American-Irish Michael Devlin develops a lasting friendship with war refugee Rabbi Judah Hirsch |
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The things they carried |
"The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a combination of fiction and non-fiction. The story is based on mostly true stories and takes place primarily in Vietnam. The author writes about the war that he participated in when he was in his 20s. The main characters are Ted Lavender, Henry Dobbins, Kiowa, Jimmy Cross and the author. They are American soldiers who were fighting in the Vietnam War. The novel is based on their stories." |
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Time-Warp |
The 20th century is marked by dramatic technology innovation. The time-warp project is an attempt to archive the rapid advance in technology through the decades. <--break->Initially we are starting from 1900 to the present. So much has happened since the harnessing of electricity! (NOTE: This site works best with Firefox or IE8+) |
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U.S. History in Context |
References works, magazines, journals and primary sources related to U.S. history. |
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When the emperor was divine |
A novel in which the members of a Japanese American family present their unique perspectives on the experience of being forced into an internment camp during World War II. |
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Wicked girls |
A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692--Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr |
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Woods runner |
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes |
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The worst hard time |
Recounts the experiences of six families and they communities as they struggle to survive the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Great Depression |
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A wreath for Emmett Till |
This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955. |
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