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Ox, House, Stick: The History of Our Alphabet
Intro to the Ancient World

Delightful story of how our alphabet developed through several ancient civilizations

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Will’s Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk
Tudor England

Excellent introduction to Shakespeare’s impact on the English language

Liberty or Death
The American Revolution

Accessible nonfiction overview of the American Revolution for young readers

Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929
The Great Depression

Gripping story of the stock market crash that started the Great Depression

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Introduction to the Ancient World

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The Ancient World

Introduction to the Ancient World

Ancient Mesopotamia

Life in Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt: Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom

Megalithic Europe

The Indus Valley

Minoans and Myceneans

Egypt: New Kingdom

The Phoenicians

Ancient Americas

The Zhou Dynasty

The Classical World

Classical Greece

• Greek Myths, Heroes, and Epics

Alexander the Great

Mauryan Empire India

Qin Dynasty China

Life in Ancient Rome

The Roman Republic and Roman Empire

Han Dynasty China

Early Christianity

The Americas in the Classical Era

Gupta Dynasty India

People of the Pacific

The Early Middle Ages

Introduction to the Medieval World

The Byzantine Empire

Sui and Tang China

The Carolingians

The Abbasid Dynasty

Anglo-Saxon Britain

The Holy Roman Empire

Capetian France

North America in the Middle Ages

Song Dynasty China

The Middle Ages

Knights and Castles in Europe

The Plantagenets

Medieval Ireland and Scotland

Shoguns and Samurai

Medieval Venice

Mali and Ethiopia

Benin and Zimbabwe

The Mongol Empire

Medieval Explorers

The Hundreds’ Year War

The Black Death

Ming Dynasty China

Medieval Constantinople

The Khmer Empire

The Renaissance World

Conquests, Conflict, and Inquisition in Spain

Renaissance Italy

Age of Exploration

The Songhay Empire

The Reformation

The Ottoman Empire

India’s Moghul Dynasty

The Conquistadors

The Spanish Armada

Dutch Independence

Trade and Empire

Edo Period Japan

The Stuarts and the English Civil War

Early European Settlers in North America

• The Mayflower, Pilgrims, and Plymouth Colony

The Swedish Empire

The Enlightenment

Transatlantic Slavery

The Age of Piracy

Early Modern African Kingdoms

English Rule in Ireland

Russian Expansion

Colonial America

• Salem Witch Trials

Revolution and Independence

Scotland: The Jacobites

Industrial Revolution

Jewish Communities in Eastern Europe

Modernizing Russia

Exploration in Oceania

The American Revolution

• American Founders

• New American Institutions

The French Revolution

The Napoleonic Wars

The End of Slavery

The British in India

Revolt in Latin America

Westward Exploration

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Early Republic and Antebellum Era

Unification and Colonization

Scramble for Africa

Victorian England

Westward Expansion

• The Oregon Trail

• Pioneer Settlers

• The California Gold Rush

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Pony Express

• Orphan Trains

Women’s Suffrage

The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

• Inventions, Engineering, and Transportation

• Child Labor Reform

• Ellis Island and Angel Island

• Turn-of-the-Century Immigration

The World at War

The Aftermath of World War I

Civil Unrest in Ireland

The Russian Revolution and Stalinist Russia

The Rise of Fascism and the Spanish Civil War

USA Between the Wars
• The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance

The Great Depression

• The Dust Bowl

Weimar and Hitler

China and Japan at War

• The Holocaust and Other Jewish Experiences

• Japanese-American Internment

The Aftermath of World War II

Indian Independence and Partition

Communist China and Mao Zedong

The Modern World

Communism and the Cold War

Israel and Palestine

Decolonization and New Nations

Fight for Rights

• The Civil Rights Movement

• Workers’ Rights Movement

Environmental Movements

Conflicts in the Middle East

Space Exploration

Apartheid South Africa

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