An array of aviation memorabilia artifacts and relics from the National Air and Space Museum collection offers an offbeat history of aviation that includes such treasures as George Washington s letter on American ballooning.... Lees meer.

With the stroke of a pen President Abraham Lincoln freed the South s enslaved people in the midst of the brutal U.S. Civil War. Or did he. Who did the Emancipation Proclamation really free. What effect did it have on the course of the Civil War. And what became of... Lees meer.

This long-awaited follow-up to Deagan s first volume on ceramics glassware and beads focuses on the portable personal objects owned and used by the residents of Spanish colonial America. These objects are not only of Spanish origin the collection includes many Englis... Lees meer.

Key artifacts from the Smithsonian collections help unlock new information about people and events in history. These artifacts may look ordinary but they are real pieces of history that tell unique stories about the past. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.... Lees meer.

Examines Abraham Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation answering questions about who it really freed what effect it had on the course of the Civil War and much more. Simultaneous. Illustrations.... Lees meer.

The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle was among the fiercest single-day battles of the entire Civil War. How did the bullet-riddled stump of a once-mighty oak tre... Lees meer.

On February 1 1960 four young Black men sat down at a Woolworth s lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time most lunch counters in the South did not serve Black people. Soon thousands of students... Lees meer.

Plymouth Rock has long stood as a symbol of the Pilgrims journey to and settlement in America and this nonfiction book examines how much of the story surrounding it is actually true in an effort to separate fact from myth and discover more of what Plymouth Rock can t... Lees meer.

Key artifacts from the Smithsonian collections help unlock new information about people and events in history. These artifacts may look ordinary but they are real pieces of history that tell unique stories about the past. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.... Lees meer.

Key artifacts from the Smithsonian collections help unlock new information about people and events in history. These artifacts may look ordinary but they are real pieces of history that tell unique stories about the past. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.... Lees meer.

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry s Japan Expedition 1853-1854 the most important voyage of mid-nineteenth-century American gunboat diplomacy resulted in the opening of Japan to Western commerce. This study documents for the first time the expedition s artifacts of... Lees meer.

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With the Declaration of Independence the 13 colonies in America declared their independence from Great Britain. Virginian Thomas Jefferson later the third president of the United States was chosen to write it. But did he write every word. Did anyone help him. What... Lees meer.

The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the United States. The U.S. suddenly went from consisting of 17 states along the Atlantic coast to claiming land as far west as present-day Montana. The U.S. government knew little about the terrain there. Was t... Lees meer.

Key artifacts from the Smithsonian collections help unlock new information about people and events in history. These artifacts may look ordinary but they are real pieces of history that tell unique stories about the past. Simultaneous and eBook. Illustrations.... Lees meer.