Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: WAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores why and how the United States joined World War I, and how it changed American history.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: 323.44 5 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to read this eBook Username onondaga Password student Summary Note: "Guardians of Liberty explores the essential and basic American ideal of freedom of the press. Allowing the American press to publish-even if what they're reporting is contentious-without previous censure or interference by the federal government was so important to the Founding Fathers that they placed a guarantee in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Citing numerous examples from America's past, from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement to Obama's and Trump's presidencies, Linda Barrett Osborne shows how freedom of the press has played an essential role in the growth of this nation, allowing democracy to flourish. She further discusses the diversity of American news and explores why freedom of the press is still imperative to uphold today. --
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c2012., Pre-adolescent, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: 305.896 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discusses the struggles for civil rights between 1896 and 1954 by African Americans.
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-- Segregation & civil rights in the Jim Crow years2012., Pre-adolescent, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: 323.1 OSB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the lives of African Americans during the Jim Crow years, a period of legal segregation and discrimination from the 1890s through the 1950s, including photographs and interviews with African Americans who were young during this time and other primary resources.
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c1997., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 973 .0496073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African-Americans.
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[2016], Juvenile, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: 304.8 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Highlights the history of immigration, and examines how the present-day United States controls immigration into America. Recounts three generations of immigrants through their personal accounts. Includes a timeline and color photographs.
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2009., Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF OSB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Collects accounts from slave narratives, journals, diaries, and other sources to provide a first-person perspective on the antebellum South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
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2009., Pre-adolescent, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: 973.7 OSB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Collects accounts from slave narratives, journals, diaries, and other sources to provide a first-person perspective on the antebellum South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
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2009., Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: 973.7 415 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Collects accounts from slave narratives, journals, diaries, and other sources to provide a first-person perspective on the antebellum South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
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2009., Juvenile, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: 973.04 Osb Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the lives and hardships of various African American families who were forced to endure the difficulties of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Discusses how these people eventually found justice and features full-color and black-and-white images throughout.
