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(0)Linda Barrett Osborne
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""In America, one of the first things done in a new State is to have the mail come." -Alexis de Toqueville, 1835 Who's Got Mail? is an intriguing and fact-filled look at how the mail has been delivered in the U.S. since the Constitution was signed. In the United States, the spread of the postal service went hand in hand with the spread of democracy and transportation. As settlement spread west, communication became even more important to let distant...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups evolved throughout U.S. history, particularly between 1800 and 1965. The book concludes with a summary of events up to contemporary times, as immigration again becomes a hot-button issue."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told through first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of legal segregation and discrimination on the day-to-day life of black and white Americans across the country.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
This book features illustrations, original documents, photographs and first-person narratives to give an account of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Includes a time line (p. 118-119)