Forty-five ready-to-color scenes depict all the drama of the American Civil War, including the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, General Lee’s surrender to General Grant at Appomattox, and much more. Includes informative captions.
Forty-five pages of finely detailed illustrations with fact-filled descriptive captions depict the arrival of the Vikings in Vinland (ca. 1000) and famous expeditions led by Cabot, Columbus, Lewis and Clark, and more. Ages 9 and up.
Learn how Colonial Americans persevered to establish a lasting foothold in the New World. Forty-four detailed drawings begin in the early seventeenth century with Europeans arriving at the Atlantic shores and conclude with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Ages 9 and up.
America's discovery, recreated in 41 superb drawings and captions: Columbus with Spanish monarchs, shipboard life, storms at sea, arrival in the New World, much more.
Many of them are National Historic Sites today, but in their time these forts were among the first footsteps of a westward-bound society. Illustrations of 44 historic forts range from sites in the northernmost reaches of the United States and Canada to El Morro, Puerto Rico's sixteenth-century citadel. Detailed captions accompany scenes from Fort McHenry, Fort Jamestown, Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Sumter, Plymouth Fort, Fort Laramie, and many other strongholds.
Sketches of Manhattan from 1642 through 1895 reflect the city's changing face. Rather than prominent individuals or significant events, these 43 images depict typical daily activities of city dwellers.
A big book of coloring fun, packed with cowboys, desperados, prospectors, and pioneers!Saddle up and take a trip back to the days of the Wild West with this giant coloring book. Packed with captivating details of frontier life, it features 118 full-page illustrations of dramatic historical events — building the railroad, crossing the prairie, battling outlaws — plus portraits of explorers, bandits, lawmen, and other real-life characters from an adventurous era.Scenes from pioneer life include a wagon train fending off an Indian attack, workmen erecting the first transcontinental telegraph lines, and prospectors trying their luck amid the Rockies. From Belle Starr and Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok, a colorful gallery of famous faces includes personalities on both sides of the law. Richly detailed, authentic depictions of cowboy life chronicle the exhausting and exhilarating business of bull riding, roping, branding, and trail driving. Each illustration appears with an informative caption.
Graphic overview of historic conflict in 45 dramatic illustrations. Scenes from the battle of Britain, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, battle of Stalingrad, Allied invasion of France, dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, the battles of Iwo Jima and Nagasaki, the fall of Berlin, and more. Informative captions.
39 illustrations depict ancient burial platforms, Natchez warriors of 1758, a modern Mikasuki Seminole alligator wrestler, and more.
Forty-four dramatically illustrated scenes tell the story of the secret network that took runaway slaves from southern states to the North and Canada between 1830 and 1860. Shocking views of slave pens, "below decks" aboard a slave ship, methods of punishing runaway slaves, refugees arriving at a "safe house," and more. Fact-filled captions.