In this article we identify opportunities for students to use timelines and textbooks to meet standards. Through the use of timelines, textbooks, and selected activities, upper elementary and middle school students are able to (1) be engaged in content area reading and writings; (2) understand large themes in social studies including time,…

This textbook is intended to furnish interesting collateral reading for the classes in United States History. It is to be read and enjoyed as background material, rather than to be learned and recited. This volume covers: (1) The Era of Good Feeling, 1817-1825; (2) John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; (3) Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845; (4) The Story of the…

This textbook describes the transition of the United States from an agricultural civilization to one of industry, from a state of isolation to one of world eminence, from an America with European creditors to an America whose capital and influence penetrate the world. It is a history of the moment when the fighting of the Civil War ceased and the…

This U.S. history textbook aimed to emphasize human interests and human action for the purpose of interesting the young reader, giving at the same time adequate treatment for a book of this grade of the more mature subjects such as tariffs, finances, foreign relations, and governmental problems.

This textbook aims to teach children the history of the country by making them acquainted with some of the most illustrious actors in it. The biographical method adopted offers a great advantage, by giving the younger pupil interesting glimpses of life in other times by means of personal anecdote.

This history textbook covers century exploration in America through Reconstruction, finishing with discussion of the growth of public institutions such as schools and libraries, and developments in arts, letters, science, and charities. This textbook is organized into the following parts: (1) Occupation: 1492-1638; (2) English Dominion: 1638-1763;…

This textbook is the first volume of Theodore Roosevelt's six-volume account of the exploration and settlement of the United States from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. This volume covers: the spread of the English-speaking peoples; the French of the Ohio Valley, 1763-1775; the Appalachian Confederacies, 1765-1775; the Algonquins of the Northwest,…

This textbook is the second volume of Theodore Roosevelt's six-volume account of the exploration and settlement of the United States from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. This volume covers 1774 to 1781. Appendices provide information on source documents. [For Volume I, see ED623795.]

This textbook is the third volume of Theodore Roosevelt's six-volume account of the exploration and settlement of the United States from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. This volume covers 1779 to 1783. Appendices provide information on source documents. [For Volume II, see ED623797.]

This textbook is the fourth volume of Theodore Roosevelt's six-volume account of the exploration and settlement of the United States from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. Chapters include: (1) The Inrush of Settlers, 1784-1787; (2) The Indian Wars, 1784-1787; (3) The Navigation of the Mississippi; Separatist Movements and Spanish Intrigues,…

This textbook is the fifth volume of Theodore Roosevelt's six-volume account of the exploration and settlement of the United States from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. Chapters include: (1) The Northwest Territory; Ohio, 1787-1790; (2) The War in the Northwest, 1787-1790; (3) The Southwest Territory; Tennessee, 1788-1790; (4) St. Clair's Defeat,…

This volume relates the story of America from its beginning as a nation, under a written Constitution. This textbook strives to present American history in a way that is interesting to children so that they shall gladly keep pace with the procession of events, clearly understanding the way in which one episode gives cause for the next, leading…

This textbook is a history reader with fictionalized selections on Columbus and DeSoto. Poems are included.

"America's Story for America's Children" is a graded series of readers intended to prepare for the regular study of history and to supplement it. Care has been taken to give prominence to the elements of life and personality and picturesqueness, so as to develop centres of interest which more advanced and systematic study will bring into…

"America's Story for America's Children" is a graded series of readers intended to prepare for the regular study of history and to supplement it. Care has been taken to give prominence to the elements of life and personality and picturesqueness, so as to develop centres of interest which more advanced and systematic study will bring into…