America: Our Stories, Volume 2 [SCM]
by Lorene Lambert Author
This living history book provides a birds-eye view of American history during the Modern time period—from the westward expansion to the twenty-first century.
Additional Details
- ISBN
- 978-1-61634-809-0
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 36
- Pages
- 292
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- United States
- Publisher
- Simply Charlotte Mason
- Copyright
- 2026
- URL
- https://simplycharlottemason.com/store/america-...
Chapters
- 1 Dancing at the Rendezvous: The Mountain Men
- 2 Westward Ho!: Pioneers on the Oregon Trail
- 3 Remember the Alamo!: Texas Gains its Independence
- 4 The Mexican War: The United States Wins Texas and California
- 5 49ers: The California Gold Rush
- 6 Conductor on the Underground Railroad: The Courageous Life of Harriet Tubman
- 7 Honest Abe: Mr. Lincoln Becomes President
- 8 Speeding the Mail: The Heroic Mission of the Pony Express
- 9 A House Divided: The Civil War
- 10 These Honored Dead: The Battle of Gettysburg and the End of the Civil War
- 11 A House Rebuilt: After the Civil War
- 12 A Far-Off Sound: The Ringing Triumph of Alexander Graham Bell
- 13 Home on the Range: Taming the Wild West
- 14 Lady Liberty: The United States Receives a Remarkable Gift
- 15 Push to New York: The Story of Ellis Island
- 16 A Monster Wheel: George W. Ferris and the Chicago World's Fari
- 17 Rough Riders: The Spanish American War
- 18 A Cowboy in the White House: President Theodore Roosevelt
- 19 Suffrage: Women Gain the Right to Vote
- 20 The Boys from the Bicycle Shop: Wilbur and Orville Wright Invent the Airplane
- 21 A Rip in the Rock: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
- 22 The Reluctant Warrior: Alvin York and World War I
- 23 The Great Bambino: The Story of America's Game
- 24 The Great Depression: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
- 25 Faster, Higher, Stronger: Jesse Owens's Olympic Triumph
- 26 Seven Thousand Miles to go: The Final Flight of Amelia Earhart
- 27 A Day That Will Live in Infamy: The Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 28 Secret Service: The Story of Navajo Code Talkers
- 29 Defending Bastogne: The Gallant Stand of the 101st Airborne
- 30 The Iron Curtain: The Long Cold War between the United States and the U.S.S.R.
- 31 We Shall Overcome: A Struggle for Civil Rights
- 32 To the Moon: The Story of the Apollo Missions
- 33 Smoking Mountain: The Eruption of Mount St. Helens
- 34 A New Kind of Revolution: The Invention and Rise of Computers
- 35 September 11, 2001: The End of the Cold War Leads to Another Kind of Conflict
- 36 The Webb Telescope: Seeing the Future through the Light of the Past
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