Clara Ingram Judson

Describes early settlement of the Great Lakes region; building of canals such as the Welland and Erie which lessened problems of lake transport around Niagara Falls and the rapids of the Sault Ste. Marie; and the joint Canadian-United States construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway and power project.

A biography of the third President, describing his boyhood at Shadwell, his schooling and study of the law, his home at Monticello, the political progression that led to his creation of the Declaration of Independence, and the years of public office in service to his country.

Ai-mei gives a strange girl an old ginger jar belonging to her grandmother, believing it has no value. When she finds out how important it is to her family, she and her brother Lu Chen search throughout Chicago in an attempt to recover the jar.

The Kovec family migrates from Bohemia to Chicago. The family loses a violin, one of their few prized possessions, on the day they arrive in Chicago. The family's effort to retrieve the violin leads to adventures which introduce them quickly to their new environment and help them acclimate to new customs, language, and surroundings.

A Swedish family emigrates to America in the middle of the nineteenth century, settles in a cabin on a small Wisconsin farm, then moves to a Minnesota homestead where they live in a sod house and prosper in their new country.

The life of the artist, engineer and inventor who is most known for designing and building the Clermont, the first successful steamboat, which was launched on the Hudson River in 1807.

Describes the life and notable accomplishments of Ben Franklin, eighteenth-century American printer, statesman, writer, and inventor.

A Swedish family emigrates to America in the middle of the nineteenth century, settles in a cabin on a small Wisconsin farm, then moves to a Minnesota homestead where they live in a sod house and prosper in their new country.

Petar and his family emigrate from their home on the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia to the Mississippi gulf coast, where Petar works in the shrimp factory, learns English, and finds a treasure.

In the early 1800's Bruce emigrates from Scotland to the New World where he is faced with such adventures as highwaymen, a new job, lost cousins, and horse thieves.

They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.But like every cutback in an important public service, DEATH's demise soon leads to chaos and unrest -- literally, for those whose time was supposed to be up, like Windle Poons. The oldest geezer in the entire faculty of Unseen University -- home of magic, wizardry, and big dinners -- Windle was looking forward to a wonderful afterlife, not this boring been-there-done-that routine. To get the fresh start he deserves, Windle and the rest of Ankh-Morpork's undead and underemployed set off to find DEATH and save the world for the living (and everybody else, of course).

A centennial biography focused on the war years.

A biography of the founder of Hull House, the Chicago social work and community center which helped late nineteenth-century America awaken to the needs of its immigrants, factory workers, and children.