TruthQuest History Guide: American History for Young Students III (1865-2000)

Topics

• 1 Picking Up the Pieces (Reconstruction)
• 2 Westward Ho!
• 2a Prairie pioneers (Sidebar: Orphan Trains)
• 2b Prairie wheat
• 2c Locust/grasshopper plagues
• 2d May Brothers
• 3 The Wild West!
• 3a Cowboys and other western goodies (Sidebar: Western Artists)
• 3b Famous westerners
• 3c Stagecoaches
• 4 Choo-Choo! (Trains across America)
• 5 More Gold!
• 6 Native America Indians
• 6a General resources
• 6b Geographical listing
• 6c Specific tribes
• 6d General fiction and picture books
• 6e Activity and art books
• 7 War in the West!
• 7a General and miscellaneous resources
• 7b Custer's Last Stand
• 7c George Custer
• 7d Comanche (a US Cavalry horse)
• 7e Battle of Wounded Knee
• 7f Geronimo
• 7g Chief Joseph
• 7h Oklahoma Land Run
• 8 Middle America and New Ideas
• 8a America's heartland and countryside (Sidebar: Lumbering)
• 8b Mississippi River, steamboats, and river culture
• 9 Aloha!
• 10 Immigrants and the 'Lady' Who Greeted Them!
• 11 Life in the Big City (Sidebar: Great Chicago Fire & San Francisco Earthquake)
• 12 Business is Booming! (Sidebar: Circus Time!)
• 13 Techonology!
• 13a General resources
• 13b Specific discoveries and inventors
• 13b1 Anesthesia
• 13b2 Automobiles
• 13b3 Aviation
• 13b4 Alexander Graham Bell
• 13b5 Luther Burbank
• 13b6 Marie & Pierre Curie
• 13b7 Lee DeForest
• 13b8 Drake's first oil well
• 13b9 George Eastman
• 13b10 Thomas Edison
• 13b11 Henry Ford
• 13b12 John Holland
• 13b13 Joseph Lister
• 13b14 Marconi
• 13b15 Jan Matzeliger
• 13b16 Matthew Maury
• 13b17 Panama Canal
• 13b18 Louis Pasteur
• 13b19 Roebling family
• 13b20 Rontgen
• 13b21 Steinmertz
• 13b22 Transatlantic Cable
• 13b23 Westinghouse
• 13b24 Wright Brothers
• 14 Achieve-A-Rama!
• 14a Arctic explorers
• 14a1 Richard Byrd
• 14a2 Matthew Henson
• 14a3 Robert Peary
• 14b Daredevils
• 14c Achievements of women
• 14c1 Elizabeth Blackwell
• 14c2 Maria Mitchell
• 14c3 Nellie Bly
• 14c4 Ruth Law and Jacqueline Cochran
• 14c5 Ellen Richards
• 14c6 Linda Richards
• 14c7 Blanche Leathers
• 14d Achievements of blacks/African-Americans
• 14d1 George Washington Carver
• 14d2 Booker T. Washington
• 14d3 Mary McLeod Bethune
• 14e Achievements of the handicapped
• 14e1 Helen Keller
• 14e2 Thomas Gallauder
• 15 Battle of Beliefs
• 16 Teddy Roosevelt
• 17 Spanish-American War
• 18 Ideas in Art, Books, and More!
• 18I Visual Arts
• 18I1 Mary Cassatt
• 18I2 Winslow Homer, George Inness, Thomas Eakins, Whistler, and J. S. Sargent
• 18I3 Sculpture
• 18II Music
• 18II1 Aaron Copland and John Philip Sousa
• 18II2 Edward MacDowell
• 18III Literature
• 18III1 Louisa May Alcott
• 18III2 Emily Dickinson
• 18III3 Mary Mapes Dodge
• 18III4 Thomas Nelson Page
• 18III5 Mark Twain
• 19 More Heroes!
• 20 Peace? No! World War One!
• 20a General resources
• 20b Specific battles, events, and squadrons
• 20c Individuals, dogs, and pigeons of note!
• 20d Fiction/Historical Fiction
• 21 After the War...and How 'Art' America?
• 21a General Resources
• 21b Abstract painters
• 21c Realistic/naturalistic artists
• 21c1 George Bellows
• 21c2 Edward Hopper
• 21c3 Grant Wood
• 21c4 Thomas Hart Benton
• 21c5 Georgia O'Keeffe
• 21c6 Andrew Wyeth
• 22 The Roaring '20s
• 22a General resources
• 22b Baseball and Babe Ruth
• 22c Charles Lindbergh
• 22d Bessie Coleman
• 22e Authors
• 22f Scientists
• 22g American jazz & national music
• 22h Sports
• 23 Hard Times-The Great Depression
• 23a The Great Depression
• 23b Dust Bowl
• 23c Herbert Hoover
• 24 Stop and Think
• 25 Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Was His 'New Deal' the 'Right Deal?'
• 26 The 1930's
• 26a Scientists
• 26b Authors
• 26c Grandma Moses and Norman Rockwell
• 26d Hoover Dam and the Empire State Building
• 26e Amelia Earhart
• 26f Hindenburg Disaster
• 26g Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, and Lou Gehrig
• 26h Johnstown Flood
• 26i 'Big Band' Music
• 27 War Clouds! (World War II)
• 27a General resources
• 27b Events of 1938
• 27c Events of 1939
• 27d Events of 1940
• 27e Events of 1941
• 27f Events of 1942
• 27g Events of 1943
• 27h Events of 1944
• 27i Events of 1945
• 27j Manhattan Project/Atomic Power/Atomic Bomb
• 27k Holocaust/Jewish suffering
• 27l Winston Chruchill
• 27m True stories of individuals
• 27n Military leaders
• 27o Special topics
• 27p Miscellaneous Fiction/Historical Fiction
• 27q Miscellaneous Films
• 28 Nuremberg Trials
• 29 The 1940s
• 30 From 'Hot War' to 'Cold War' to 'Hot War' Again!
• 30a The Cold War
• 30b The Korean War
• 30c The Cuban Missile Crisis
• 30d The Vietnam War
• 31 The Cold War "Takes Off" (Space Exploration)
• 32 The 1950s & 1960s
• 32a General events and ideas
• 32b Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson
• 33 The Civil Rights Movement
• 34 People... and Nature
• 35 From the 1970s....to Today!
• 36 Another Wrong Turn (Postmodernism)