Describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the fateful encounter at the Little Bighorn River on June 25, 1876, between the Seventh Cavalry troops commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Custer and the Cheyenne and Lakota Sioux led by Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. There have been many battles in American history, but only a handful have acquired the status held by the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This book explores the background to this famous...

Discusses the civilization of the Anasazi people, who farmed the land of Mesa Verdi, a plateau in southwest Colorado, around 550 A.D. and dug their homes in the cliffs. The Anasazi people of the Southwest existed, as a culture, for about eighteen hundred years. They disappeared in about 1300, yet they have left enduring legacies. This book explains how Anasazi culture developed and examines the civilization at its height through the life of the people...

Explains the background to the United States' involvement in World War II and details the events of December 7, 1941.

Describes how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama, staged the 1955 boycott to end segregation on public buses and discusses that struggle in the context of the Civil Rights Movement.

Describes the background, planning, accomplishment, and aftermath of Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the moon.

Describes the causes, events, people, and legacy of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Discusses the story of the poem "The star spangled banner, " how that poem became the national anthem of the United States, and the background to and outcome of the War of 1812.

Describes South Carolina's secession from the Union and the subsequent firing on Fort Sumter that marked the beginning of the Civil War.

Describes the role of Spanish missionaries during the Spanish colonial period in the southwestern United States, discusses mission life, and explores the reasons for the end of the mission era.