We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History [SCM]

Chapters

• 1 Diego Bermúdez: Sailing into the Unknown
• 2 The Tainos: Discovering Columbus
• 3 Pocahontas: Peacemaker, Cartwheeler, Princess
• 4 Tom Savage: Living Two Lives
• 5 Orphans and Tobacco Brides: Feeding England's Newest Habit
• 6 Saints and Strangers: Bound by Hope
• 7 Betty Paris and Abigail Williams: Bewitched or Bored?
• 8 Eunice Williams: Captive
• 9 Eliza Lucas: Indigo Planter
• 10 Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapped into Slavery
• 11 Phillis Wheatley: The Impossible Poet
• 12 Anna Green Winslow and Charity Clark: Spinning for Liberty
• 13 Christopher Seider and Samuel Maverick: Martyrs of the Revolution
• 14 Joseph Plumb Martin: "And Now I Was a Soldier"
• 15 John Quincy Adams: Translating for the Revolution
• 16 Sybil Ludington: Outdistancing Paul Revere
• 17 Mary Redmond, John Darragh, and Dicey Langston: Spies
• 18 James Forten: Saved by a Game of Marbles
• 19 Private Deborah Sampson: Alias Robert Shirtliffe
• 20 Smith Wilkenson: The Same Thing Over and Over
• 21 Rebecca and Abigail Bates: An Army of Two
• 22 Caroline Pickersgill: Stitching the Star-Spangled Banner
• 23 Lucy Larcom and Harriet Hanson: Voices of the Mills
• 24 Anyokah: Teaching Leaves to Talk
• 25 Manjiro: Bringing America to Japan
• 26 George Fred Tilton: "Why, Whaling I Suppose"
• 27 Frederick Douglass: Taking On a Tyrant
• 28 Allen Jay: Underground Railroad Conductor
• 29 Maria Weems: Escape to Canada
• 30 Elisha Stockwell: "Such a Mess As I Was In"
• 31 Johnny Clem: Poster Boy of the North
• 32 Billy Bates and Dick King: Escape from Andersonville
• 33 Susie King Taylor: At the Heart of the Sea Islands
• 34 Carrie Berry: "They Came Burning Atlanta Today"
• 35 Vinnie Ream: "I...Begged Mr. Lincoln Not to Allow Me to Disturb Him"
• 36 Sacagawea: "She Inspired Us All"
• 37 Enrique Esparza: Inside the Alamo
• 38 Mary Goble: Walking to Zion
• 39 William Cody: Racing the Wind
• 40 Ng Poon Chew and Lee Chew: Gold Mountain Boys
• 41 Teddy Blue Abbott: Cowpuncher
• 42 Chuka: "I Did Not Want My Shirt Taken from My Back"
• 43 Gene Schermerhorn: A New City Every Day
• 44 Rose Cohen: First Day in a Sweatshop
• 45 Joseph Miliauskas: Breaker Boy
• 46 Jennie Curtis: Strike Leader
• 47 Kid Blink and the Newsies: Bringing Down Goliaths
• 48 John Thayer: Becoming a Man Aboard the Titanic
• 49 Edna Purtell: Suffragist
• 50 Charles Denby: Bound North
• 51 Jackie Cooper: "Lights, Action, Cry!"
• 52 Margaret Davidson: War on the Home Front
• 53 Harley Holladay: Black Sunday
• 54 Peggy Eaton: Ridin' the Rails
• 55 Calvin Graham: Too Young to Be a Hero?
• 56 Terry Grimmesey: "What Had We Done?"
• 57 Joe Nuxhall: and Anna Meyer: A Wartime Chance to Play Ball
• 58 Claudette Colvin: The First to Keep Her Seat
• 59 Elizabeth Eckford: Facing a Mob on the First Day of School
• 60 Carolyn McKinstry: On the Firing Line
• 61 John Tinker: Tinker v. Des Moines
• 62 Jessica Govea: Education of a Union Organizer
• 63 Bill Gates: Another Revolution
• 64 Arn Chorn: Starting All Over
• 65 Judi Warren and the Warsaw Tigers: Taking Center Stage
• 66 Ryan White: Going to School with AIDS
• 67 Kory Johnson: An Environmentalist for Life