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What Was the Holocaust?
| Author | Gail Herman |
| ISBN | 0451533909 |
The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis,...
What Is the Declaration of Independence?
| Author | Michael C. Harris |
| ISBN | 0399542302 |
On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that...
Where Is Stonehenge?
| Author | True Kelley |
Where is Stonehenge? That's an easy question to answer. It sits on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England. But what is the meaning of these strange circles of stones? Was Stonehenge a religious...
Where Is the Taj Mahal?
| Author | Dorothy Hoobler |
| ISBN | 0399542159 |
The Taj Mahal may look like a palace, but it's actually a tomb and a lasting testament to one of the world's great love stories. In 1612, Mogul emperor Shah Jahan married Mumtaz Mahal....
Who Is Oprah Winfrey?
| Author | Barbara Kramer |
| ISBN | 1524787507 |
We all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the "Queen of Talk" wasn't always so fortunate. She...
Where Is Mount Rushmore?
| Author | True Kelley |
| ISBN | 0448483564 |
Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving...
What Is the Constitution?
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 1524786098 |
Signed on September 17, 1787--four years after the American War for Independence--the Constitution laid out the supreme law of the United States of America. Today it's easy...
Where Is the Colosseum?
| Author | Jim O'Connor |
The Emperor Titus opened the enormous Colosseum in AD 80 to host 100 days of games, and it will astound readers to learn what the ancient Romans found entertaining. Over 50,000 screaming fans watched gladiators...
What Is Climate Change?
| Author | Gail Herman |
| ISBN | 1524786152 |
The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development?...
Who Is Michael Jordan?
| Author | Kirsten Anderson |
| ISBN | 0451532457 |
Meet the man who changed the game forever. Michael Jordan has always been competitive--even as a young boy, he fought for attention. His need to be the best made him a star player on his college basketball...
Where Is the Kremlin?
| Author | Deborah Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 1524789755 |
Lined by nineteen beautiful towers, the high walls of the Kremlin enclose colorful domed cathedrals, treasure-filled museums, and the...
Where Is Area 51?
| Author | Paula K. Manzanero |
| ISBN | 1524786411 |
Is Area 51 a top secret military base that lies in the middle of the barren Nevada desert? Or could it actually be a facility for examining aliens and their spaceships? People...
What Was the Hindenburg?
| Author | Janet B. Pascal |
| ISBN | 0448481197 |
In under a minute, the Hindenburg was gone,...
What Were the Roaring Twenties?
| Author | Michele Mortlock |
| ISBN | 1524786381 |
It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're not familiar with 1920s slang, all the more reason to read this fascinating look at that wild,...
Who Was P. T. Barnum?
| Author | Kirsten Anderson |
| ISBN | 0448488485 |
After moving from Connecticut to New York City in 1834, twenty-four-year-old Phineas Taylor Barnum launched his...
What Was the Ice Age?
| Author | Nico Medina |
| ISBN | 0399543899 |
Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice covered...
Who Was Norman Rockwell?
| Author | Sarah Fabiny |
| ISBN | 0448488647 |
Norman Rockwell often painted what he saw around him in nostalgic and humorous ways. After hearing President Franklin Roosevelt's address to Congress in 1943, he was inspired...