Essential events

Author

Gitlin, Marty Stockland, Patricia M Ouellette, Jeannine Higgins, Nadia O'Neill, Joseph R Vander Hook, Sue Magoon, Kekla Pederson, Charles E Sherman, Jill Farrell, Courtney Grayson, Robert Cunningham, Kevin Lusted, Marcia Amidon Morgan, Kayla Lies, Anne Johnson, Kristin Dolezalek, Holly Gitlin, Martin Reece, Richard Hamen, Susan E Gimpel, Diane Lüsted, Marcia Amidon Anderson, Jennifer Joline Gimpel, Diane Marczely Johnson, Kristin F Cates, David Houser, Aimee Felix, Rebecca Watson, Stephanie Zuchora-Walske, Christine Owings, Lisa Rissman, Rebecca Gillam, Scott

1) The 1929 Stock Market Crash

Author

Gitlin, Marty

2) The assassination of John F. Kennedy

Author

Stockland, Patricia M.

3) Brown v. the Board of Education

Author

Gitlin, Marty

4) Hurricane Katrina

Author

Ouellette, Jeannine

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2008]

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Learn about the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005.

5) Moon landing

Author

Higgins, Nadia

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2008]

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Explores the events leading to the 1969 moon walk including the early history of rocketry, the 1967 Apollo 1 disaster, and the space race with the Soviet Union.

6) The Bolshevik Revolution

Author

O'Neill, Joseph R.

7) The Dust Bowl

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

8) The Great Wall of China

Author

O'Neill, Joseph R.

9) The Zebulon Pike expedition

Author

Magoon, Kekla

10) Building the Panama Canal

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

11) The French & Indian War

Author

Pederson, Charles E.

12) The Hindenburg disaster

Author

Sherman, Jill

13) Terror at the Munich Olympics

Author

Farrell, Courtney

14) Trail of Tears

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

15) The United States enters World War I

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

16) The Amistad

Author

Grayson, Robert

17) The bubonic plague

Author

Cunningham, Kevin

18) The Chernobyl Disaster

Author

Lusted, Marcia Amidon

19) The Cold War

Author

Morgan, Kayla

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2011]

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Examines the twentieth-century standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, discussing origins, nuclear strategies, and the breakup of the Soviet Union.

20) The earthquake in Haiti

Author

Lies, Anne

21) The Endurance expedition

Author

Johnson, Kristin

22) The global financial crisis

Author

Dolezalek, Holly

23) The Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Author

Farrell, Courtney

24) Holocaust

Author

Gitlin, Martin

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

Description

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This title examines a somber historic event – the Holocaust. Compelling text explores the background of the Holocaust, including the events leading up to it, the aftermath and casualties, and the key people involved. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts, additional resources, Web sites, glossary, bibliography, and index. Essential Events is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

25) The Korean War

Author

Reece, Richard

26) The Manhattan Project

Author

Vander Hook, Sue

27) The New Deal

Author

Hamen, Susan E.

28) The transcontinental railroad

Author

Gimpel, Diane

29) The 2011 Japan disasters

Author

Lüsted, Marcia Amidon

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2012]

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

30) Bleeding Kansas

Author

Reece, Richard

31) California's Gold Rush

Author

Grayson, Robert

32) The capture and killing of Osama bin Laden

Author

Lüsted, Marcia Amidon

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2012]

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Profiles the terrorist leader of al-Qaida, who orchestrated the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, and describes his assassination by the U.S. government in May of 2011.

33) The Chilean miners' rescue

Author

Lusted, Marcia Amidon

34) The civil rights movement

Author

Anderson, Jennifer Joline

35) The Columbine shootings

Author

Gimpel, Diane Marczely

36) The Hudson plane landing

Author

Gitlin, Marty

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2012]

Physical Desc

112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Discusses the emergency landing of US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River by Captain Chesley Sullenberger after five Canadian geese struck the plane, damaging its engines.

37) The Oregon Trail

Author

Lüsted, Marcia Amidon

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2012]

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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Describes the Oregon Trail, a nineteenth-century path across the American frontier taken by many settlers traveling West, and explains the reasons for immigration, the conditions along the trail, and the impact it had on American history.