"America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one visual stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day--from the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of...

Explores the symbols and traditions of found in the United States and provides a brief history of different holidays, discussing how and why they are celebrated.

"A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--

"Since Steve Jobs helped found Apple in 1976, the company has been at the cutting edge of computing, introducing the world to personal computers, the iPhone, and more. Learn about Apple's past, present, and future"--

"Las selecciones nacionales de fútbol de México y Estados Unidos mantienen una rivalidad desde hace décadas. ¿Qué llevó a estas selecciones a convertirse en feroces competidores? ¿Cómo contribuye la afición de ambos países a mantener esta rivalidad? El texto de fácil lectura y las fantásticas imágenes hacen de estos libros una opción obvia para los fanáticos del fútbol que tienen dificultades con la lectura o reacios a leer"--

"Carrie Chapman Catt mobilized people across the nation to dare to question a woman's right to vote"--

Updated for 2021, readers can easily relive the course of American history through a detailed timeline, more than 50 vivid photographs and illustrations, information about each president's term in office, and the major political issues of each era.

"Two-time National Jewish Book Award winner Norman H. Finkelstein and Sydney Taylor Award winner Vesper Stamper have teamed up to tell the story of Abraham Cahan, the founder and longtime editor of the Yiddish language newspaper the Forverts (the Forward), which, in its heyday, was one of the largest newspapers in the United States. As the saying went: "What's a home without the Forverts?" From explaining voting rights to the importance of public...

"Divided into eight chapters covering the breadth of the US, pictographic maps locate each of the monuments explored, while double-page, poster-worthy scenes convey the beauty of the areas featured. Monuments covered include Statue of Liberty, Stonewall, Katahdin, the National Mall, Forts of the East, Jewel Cave, Pipestone, Pullman, Grand-Staircase Escalante, Chiricahua National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Rainbow Bridge, the Dinosaur National...

"Wildfires have been part of the American landscape for thousands of years. Forests need fire--it's as necessary to their well-being as soil and sunlight. But some fires burn out of control, destroying everything and everyone in their path. In this book, you'll find out about how and why wildfires happen, how different groups . . . have managed forests and fire, the biggest wildfires in American history--how they began and . . . stories of both rescue...