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Real People. Real Stories.™
Publishers of Primary Source-Based U.S. History Books
We are pleased to offer you our collection of primary source-based U.S. history books, historical fiction, and guides. Filled with original documents – letters, photographs, journal entries, maps, broadsheets, newspaper accounts, and illustrations – each book tells stories through firsthand accounts of life, struggle, hardship, victory, and success in our nation's history.
Our goal is to provide you stories, compelling and true, that give insight into our nation's history. We aim to publish carefully selected, well-researched books that help us better understand our past, give us context for the present, and shed light on our future. We are excited about the opportunity to share our enjoyment of history with you.
We invite you to look over our extensive collection.
What's New
by Jeff Levinson
The pre-Civil War textile industry in Lowell, Massachusetts exemplified the American industrial revolution and heralded a nationwide shift from farm to factory. During this time, technological innovation, investment capital, entrepreneurship, new methods of industrial organization, and labor provided by "mill girls" propelled large-scale manufacturing in an important U.S. industry. Mill Girls of Lowell gives insight into the role of mill girls in the story of modernization and industrialization.
The popular Perspectives on History series contains compelling firsthand accounts from colonists to astronauts and is widely used as supplemental material in the study of history and literature in grades 6-12 and at the college level as well as an attractive offering for historic site and museum visitors. |
The innovative Researching American History series, designed for less experienced students and as an attractive offering for historic site and museum visitors, introduces our nation's history through compelling firsthand accounts and primary source materials. |
The Adventures in History line combines lively fiction with vivid historical details. Each well-written tale gives insight into the era or topic because of the adherence to historical accuracy. |
Featured Title:
by Karen L. Badt When the Pilgrims arrived on the North American shores, the region that is now New England and Northeastern Canada was alive with native peoples. This book presents a look at their story -- how the members of the Six Nations reacted to the white man's arrival, their resistance to and assimilation into the culture of the Europeans, and the on-going struggle to preserve their own beliefs and lands, despite intervention from the government of the new nation. |
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by Pat Perrin Set against the background of discrimination and violence against African-Americans in the early and middle 20th century, this volume introduces the ideas and people behind the movement for racial equality, the struggle for desegregation, and the civil rights marches of the 1960s. |
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Seaman's Adventures with Lewis and Clark by Duncan Brown This easy reader tells of adventures encountered by Lewis and Clark on their voyage of discovery and by Seaman, the dog who went along. At the end of the book the reader has the opportunity to tell or write a few words of his or her own, relating to an adventure on the way back. Grades K-2. |