Author : Laurence Yep
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2002
Category : China
ISBN : 9780613462310
Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.
Author : Josephine F. Pacheco
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807888923
In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison. Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.
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Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Hydrology
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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher :
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
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Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of ... with ancillaries.
Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
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Page : 814 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Digital images
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Page : 796 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Administrative law
ISBN :
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.
Author : Rosanne Blass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 1591588316
This resource book for librarians and teachers of elementary and middle grade readers introduces over 400 titles of books (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) written and illustrated by international authors and illustrators. Windows on the World: International Books for Elementary and Middle Grade Readers helps librarians and teachers open the eyes of elementary and middle grade readers to what life is like for children like themselves around the globe. In this extraordinary resource, you will find introductions to over 400 fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles for age levels 4-8 and 8-12, written and illustrated by international authors and illustrators, and matched with related curriculum activities correlated with national curriculum standards. Windows on the World consists of over 100 lead books and over 350 related books published in the last ten years, organized by countries and cultures. It includes work from non-American authors working in the United States and abroad, as well as reissues of classics, and a few American titles noted for their authentic representations of other cultures. Each entry includes bibliographic data, information about the author and illustrator, identification of genre, recommended age level, a synopsis, suggested curriculum responses correlated with national curriculum standards, and related books.
Author : Doris Gebel
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780810852037
This annotated bibliography-organized geographically by world region and country, describing nearly 700 books representing 73 countries-is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. It is the third volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People. The first, Carl M. Tomlinson's Children's Books from Other Countries (1998) is a compendium of international children's literature with annotations of both in and out of print books published between 1950 and 1996. Susan Stan's The World Through Children's Books (2002) was the second and it included books published between the years 1997 and 2000. Crossing Boundaries includes international children's books published between 2000 and 2004, as well as selected American books set in countries other than the United States. Editor Doris Gebel has compiled an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.
Author : Walter Harvey Weed
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Geysers
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Mineral industries
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