Product Description: UXL Civics supports middle school civics, economics, history, and U.S. government curricula in its three full-color, thematically arranged volumes. Volume 1: American Government covers the foundations and structures of local and state government as well as the three federal branches, the role of political parties and other entities that influence the government, and the intersection of government and the economy...read more

Product Description: American Decades: Primary Sources, 2000-2009 is the eleventh volume in the best-selling Gale series; it covers the first decade of the twenty-first century. The title is a cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school students and teachers, public librarians and general researchers who need a single, consistent reference to explore and analyze the events, people and social trends that have impacted contemporary history...read more

Product Description: This five-volume resource provides exciting details on key events, people and outcomes of approximately 200 major Supreme Court decisions that had a significant impact on American society. Cases are arranged by topic, introduced with an overview essay...read more

A comprehensive resource offers information on the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

Offers information on the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

Profiles twenty-five people important to the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, including author Mark Twain, activist Booker T. Washington, inventor Thomas Edison, and tycoon Edward Harriman.

Eighteen documents and collections of illustrations tell the story of the United States during the Golden Age and the Progressive Era, including a firsthand account of the sinking of the Titanic, excerpts from legislation, and pages from catalogs.

Product Description: U*X*L Newsmakers is the place to turn for information on personalities active on the current scene. Containing fifty biographies, U*X*L Newsmakers covers contemporary figures who are making headlines in a variety of fields, including entertainment, government, literature, music, pop culture, science, and sports...read more

Product Description: The Human Genome Diversity Project tells us that between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago people from Mongolia crossed Beringia to what we now call the Americas. "U.S. Immigration and Migration" chronicles and interprets the phenomenal waves of immigration to the United States from the earliest times through the period from 1820 to 1930, when the United States was the destination of some 60% of the world's immigrants -- up to the present day, when restrictive policies have temporarily stanched the flow of immigrants...read more