Search Results: Returned 7 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 7
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1996., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: 979.8 COH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Spotlight on American historySummary Note: A close-up look at the events surrounding the U.S. purchase of Alaska from the Russians. The author shows the human foibles on both sides of what was later to be regarded as a significant event in American history.
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1996., Millbrook Press Call No: 973.311 ONE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Spotlight on American historySummary Note: Recounts the events that led up to the American Revolutionary War, with emphisis on the importance of the Boston Tea Party to that end.
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1992., Millbrook Press Call No: 973.2 VAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Spotlight on American historySummary Note: Describes the panic that swept through colonial Salem, Massachusetts, when the people were convinced that witches were among them and outlines the factors leading up to this episode.
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1994., Millbrook Press Call No: 973.71 BAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Spotlight on American historySummary Note: Examines the personal background of abolitionist John Brown and the events surrounding the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859.
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1994., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: 323.1 ONE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Spotlight on American historySummary Note: In September 1957, a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas became a civil rights battleground when nine black students sought to enroll.
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2016., Juvenile, PowerKids Press Call No: 973.3 HEN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Spotlight on American history (PowerKids Press)Summary Note: Introduces some of the European soldiers who traveled from Europe to America during the Revolutionary War to help the Americans fight for their independence from Great Britain including Marquis de Lafayette, Count Casimir Pulaski, and Baron von Steuben.
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1994., Millbrook Press Call No: 973.87 ALT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Spotlight on American historySummary Note: Discusses the people and events involved in the unsuccessful but influential strike by railroad workers at the Pullman Company in Chicago in 1894.
