Record Added: 5/22/2012 Series American Heritage Junior Library Setting  United States Topic History: American, Genera History: European, World Publisher American Heritage Press Year 1960 Age 9-12 Pages 153 Description White printed binding
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The American Heritage Junior Library from Golden Press was a great series of educational books that were published in the 1960's. These attractive hardbound books present young readers with most of the important, and many lesser-known, events and figures in United States history, all of them engagingly written and full of beautiful color illustrations ranging from photographs to oil paintings.
Because there's so much information, and most entries are divided into digestible sections, these make excellent flip-through books for free time or a rainy day.
Because each title is topic-specific, these also make excellent resources for research projects. And because kids love reading about pirates, outlaws, Indians, and the circus, the American Heritage Junior Library is a great way to get them more interested in history by providing them with factual information on the subjects they already love. A great addition to any library, and lots of fun to collect. |
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41 Titles in the Series: - Abraham Lincoln in Peace and War by Earl Schenck Miers
- Adventures in the Wilderness by Rutherford Hayes Platt
- Air War Against Hitler's Germany by Stephen W. Sears
- Americans In Space by John Dille
- Andrew Jackson - Soldier and Statesman by Ralph K. Andrist
- Captains of Industry by Bernard A. Weisberger
- Carrier War in the Pacific by Stephen W. Sears
- Clipper Ships and Captains by Jane D. Lyon
- Commodore Perry in Japan by Robert L. Reynolds
- Cowboys and Cattle Country by Don Ward
- D-Day - The Invasion of Europe by Al Hine
- Discoverers of the New World by Josef Berger
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Wilson Sullivan
- George Washington and the Making of a Nation by Marcus Cunliffe
- Great Days of the Circus by Freeman H. Hubbard
- Indians of the Plains by Eugene Rachlis
- Ironclads of the Civil War by Frank Robert Donovan
- Jamestown - First English Colony by Marshall William Fishwick
- Labor on the March - The Story of America's Unions by Joseph Lawrence Gardner
- Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill by Francis Russell {*}
- Men of Science and Invention by Michael Blow
- Naval Battles and Heroes by Wilbur Cross {*}
- Pirates of the Spanish Main by Hamilton Cochran
- Railroads in the Days of Steam by Albert L. McCready
- Steamboats on the Mississippi by Ralph K. Andrist
- Texas and the War with Mexico by Fairfax Downey
- The Battle of Gettysburg by Bruce Catton {*}
- The Battle of the Bulge by Stephen W. Sears
- The Battle of Yorktown by Thomas J. Fleming
- The California Gold Rush by Ralph K. Andrist
- The Erie Canal by Ralph K. Andrist
- The French and Indian Wars by Francis Russell {*}
- The History of the Atomic Bomb by Michael Blow
- The Many Worlds of Benjamin Franklin by Frank Robert Donovan
- The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony by Feenie Ziner
- The Story of Yankee Whaling by Irwin Shapiro
- Theodore Roosevelt - The Strenuous Life by John A. Garraty
- Thomas Jefferson and His World by Henry Moscow
- To the Pacific with Lewis and Clark by Ralph K. Andrist
- Trappers and Mountain Men by Evan Jones {*}
- Westward on the Oregon Trail by Marian T. Place
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