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What Was Ellis Island?
Patricia Brennan Demuth - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
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From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not restored until the 1980s, when Americans from all over the country donated more than $150... |
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What Are the Summer Olympics?
Gail Herman - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Print book
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Back in 775 BC, athletes from all over Ancient Greece came together to compete in various games. The contests were held every four years and winning athletes brought honor and respect to their homelands.The tradition of the Olympic Games faded over time until 1896, when they were brought... |
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What Is the Declaration of Independence? (What Was?)
Michael C Harris - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback
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Step back in time to the birth of the United States of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free!On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence,... |
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What Is the Panama Canal?
Janet Pascal - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
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Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel... |
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What Is the Statue of Liberty?
Joan Holub - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Print book
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In 1876, France decided to give the United States a very big and very special present--the Statue of Liberty. The gift was to commemorate the 100th birthday of the United States, and just packing it was no small feat--350 pieces in 214 crates shipped across the ocean. The story of how the 111-foot-tall... |
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What Is The Super Bowl?
Dina Anastasio - Turtleback Books
Format: Print book
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With over 110 million viewers every year, the Super Bowl is one of the most watched television events in the United States. The final showdown between the two best football teams in the NFL attracts some of the biggest musicians to perform at the half-time show. But the Super Bowl is more... |
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What Is The World Series?
Gail Herman - Turtleback; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. ""Strike three--you're out!"" ""He's safe!"" ""Homerun!"" Every October, millions of baseball fans around the country anxiously wait to see which team wins baseball's biggest championship.... |
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What Was D-Day?
Patricia Brennan Demuth - Grosset & Dunlap; Dgs edition
Format: Print book
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In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi... |
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What Was Hurricane Katrina?
Robin Koontz - Grosset & Dunlap; Dgs edition
Format: Print book
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On August 25th, 2005, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in history hit the Gulf of Mexico. High winds and rain pummeled coastal communities, including the City of New Orleans, which was left under 15 feet of water in some areas after the levees burst. Track this powerful... |
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What Was Pearl Harbor?
Patricia Demuth - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Hardcover
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A terrifying attack! On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled... |
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What Was Pompeii?
Jim OConnor - Penguin Workshop; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
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The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than... |
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What Was the Alamo?
Meg Belviso - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
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"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation... |
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What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Jim O'Connor - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
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"Four score and seven years ago..." begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So how did Union troops stop General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North? With... |
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What Was the Boston Tea Party?
Kathleen Krull - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Hardcover
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"No Taxation without Representation!" The Boston Tea Party stands as an iconic event of the American Revolution - outraged by the tax on tea, American colonists chose to destroy the tea by dumping it into the water! Learn all about the famed colonialists who fought against the British... |
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What Was the First Thanksgiving?
Joan Holub - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
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The history of the feast! After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors. Of course, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag didn't know it at the time, but they were making history, celebrating what would become a national... |
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What Was the Gold Rush?
Joan Holub - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback
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In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the world, some who struck it rich and many more who didnt. Hear the stories about the gold-seeking "forty-niners!" With black-and white illustrations and sixteen pages of photos, a nugget... |
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What Was the Great Depression?
Janet B Pascal - Grosset & Dunlap, 2015.
Format: Print book
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On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market - the system that controls money in America - plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working.... |
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What Was the Hindenburg?
Janet B Pascal - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Print book
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At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than the Titanic! Also of a disastrous end, the zeppelin burst into flame as spectators watched it attempt to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. In under a minute, the Hindenburg was gone,... |
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What Was The Lewis And Clark Expedition?
Judith St George - Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Format: Print book
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When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the ""Corp of Discovery"" left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travelers hoped to find a waterway that crossed... |
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What Was the March on Washington?
Kathleen Krull - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
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On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and it was this peaceful protest that spurred the momentous civil rights laws of the mid-1960s.... |
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What Was the Underground Railroad?
Yona Zeldis McDonough - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
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No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls... |
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What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
Joan Holub - Grosset & Dunlap; Dgs edition
Format: Print book
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"Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available,... |
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What Were the Twin Towers?
Jim O'Connor - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
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Discover the true story of the Twin Towers - how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed.When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed... |
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What Is the Story of Doctor Who?
Gabriel P. Cooper - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback
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Who HQ brings you the stories behind the most beloved characters of our time.This What Is the Story of? title is out of this universe! Learn the history of the Time Lord, the TARDIS, and the epic battles they've faced across time and space.When Doctor Who began airing on the BBC in 1963,... |
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What Is the Story of The Wizard of Oz?
Kirsten Anderson - Penguin Workshop
Format: Paperback
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Who HQ brings you the stories behind the most beloved characters of our time.We're off to see the Wizard...along with Dorothy, Toto, and all of her friends as they make their way onto the What Is the Story of? list. When L. Frank Baum wrote about the adventures of a young farm girl... |
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