Who Was Sitting Bull?
10 best books like Who Was Sitting Bull? (Stephanie Spinner): What Was the Underground Railroad?, What Was the Alamo?, What Was the Great Chicago Fire?, What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?, What Was the Holocaust?, Where Is Machu Picchu?, What Is the Declaration of Independence?, Where Is Stonehenge?, Where Is Mount Rushmore?, What Was D-Day?
What Was the Underground Railroad?
| Author | Yona Zeldis McDonough |
| ISBN | 0448467127 |
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles...
| Author | Meg Belviso |
| ISBN | 0448467100 |
"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. With...
| Author | Janet B. Pascal |
| ISBN | 0399542388 |
Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series.
On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything...
When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the "Corp of Discovery" left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travelers hoped to find a waterway that crossed the western half of the United...
| Author | Gail Herman |
| ISBN | 0451533909 |
A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event--the Holocaust.
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,...
| Author | Megan Stine |
| ISBN | 0515159611 |
What's left of Machu Picchu stands as the most significant link to the marvelous Inca civilization of Peru. Now readers can explore these ruins in this compelling Where Is? title.
Built in the fifteenth century and tucked away in the mountains of Peru, Machu Picchu was abandoned after the Spaniards...
What Is the Declaration of Independence?
| Author | Michael C. Harris |
| ISBN | 0399542302 |
Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free!
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...
Unravel some of the riddles of Stonehenge, one of the most famous and mysterious monuments in the world!
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...
| Author | True Kelley |
| ISBN | 0448483564 |
It was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does that sound like a wacky idea? Many at the time thought so.
Borglum faced a lot of opposition and problems at every turn; the blasting and carving...
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 0448484072 |
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the...
What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
| Author | Jim O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0448462869 |
"Four score and seven years ago..." begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point.
So how did Union troops stop General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North? With black-and-white...
| Author | Janet B. Pascal |
| ISBN | 0448481197 |
At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than the Titanic! Also of a disastrous end, the zeppelin burst into flame as spectators watched it attempt to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937.
In under a minute, the Hindenburg was gone,...
