Anita Louise McCormick

Traces the history of the industrial revolution from its roots in eighteenth-century England, through its beginnings in the United States, to its decline in the twentieth-century.

Explains how the Internet has evolved into the massive system that it is today.

Describes the movement of Native Americans onto government-run reservations and presents a look at reservation life today.

Describes space exploration through the use of telescopes, satellites, observatories, rockets, exploratory vehicles, and astronauts.

Historical overview of the Pony Express, the mechanism by which mail was moved between the West and East coasts of the United States via horse.

This book traces the evolution of modern conveniences, luxurious consumer goods, developing cities, and the problems of urban living. It describes how, in less than two hundred years, the United States changed from a rural, agricultural society into an industrial world power. Exploring the inventions, ideas, and innovators who helped bring the Industrial Revolution from its roots in Great Britain to America.