Author
Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
ImprintNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001.
Descriptionvii, 264 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Note: Content"Tierra!" When two worlds met.-- Strangers in paradise: the British Colonies.-- Breaking away: the American Revolution.-- Learning to be a nation.-- One nation or two? The Civil War.-- Elbow room: the West.-- Shifting gears in a new century.-- Hard times: wars, depression, and dust.-- Times that kept a-changin'.-- Linking up in the twenty-first century.
Abstract:Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.
ISBN:0374382522
ISBN:9780374382520
ISBN:0789425874
ISBN:9780789425874