Stories of America, Volume 2: From The Oregon Trail to the Present Day [SCM]
by Charles Morris, et al. Author
A great living history spine for Modern Times. Includes stories about the Oregon Trail, the Civil War, America's role in the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the first men on the moon, the Civil Rights Movement, September 11, the Information Age, and so much in between. The content and style is appropriate for younger students and interesting to older students. Well-loved patriotic poetry by American poets is included along with helpful maps.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781616341695
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 43
- Pages
- 241
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- United States
- Historical Setting
- 1850 - 2012
- Publisher
- Simply Charlotte Mason
- Copyright
- 2012
- URL
- http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/stories-o...
Chapters
- 1 Heading West on the Oregon Trail
- 2 The California Gold Rush
- 3 The Sad Story of Slavery
- 4 How Lincoln Became President
- O Captain! My Captain!
- 5 The Great Civil War
- 6 War on Sea and Land
- 7 After the Civil War
- 8 Custer Battles Sitting Bull
- 9 Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone
- 10 The Right to Vote
- 11 Booker T. Washington
- 12 Lady Liberty
- The New Colossus
- 13 Helen Keller
- 14 The Spanish-American War
- 15 Theodore Roosevelt: Rough Rider and President
- 16 The Wright Brothers
- 17 Henry Ford Finds a Better Way
- 18 The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
- 19 Ellis Island
- 20 The Fire That Changed America
- A Nation's Strength
- 21 The Great Tragedy of 1912: The Sinking of the Titanic
- 22 The War to End All Wars
- 23 On the Home Front: Doing Our Bit During World War I
- 24 Corporal York Defeats the Machine Gun
- America the Beautiful
- 25 A Roar and a Crash
- 26 World War II
- 27 The Battle of the Bulge
- 28 The Battle of Iwo Jima
- The Flag Goes By
- 29 V for Victory
- 30 A Long Cold War
- 31 For Civil Rights
- Sympathy
- 32 The Land of What Can Be
- 33 The End of the Cold War
- 34 September 11, 2001
- 35 A New Kind of War
- 36 The Information Age and a Farewell
- America
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