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Chinese portraits
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Dorothy Hoobler |
Portraits of people prominent in Chinese civilization over a 3000-year period: Confucius, Shi Huang Di, the Ban family, Empress Wu, Li Bo and Du Fu, Ma Yuan, Zheng He, Yuan Mei, Lin Xezu, and the Soo… |
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African portraits
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Dorothy Hoobler |
Presents biographies of some prominent sub-Saharan African people throughout history, including Piankhy, Ahmed Baba, Ann Nzinga, Cinque, Kip Keino, and Wole Soyinka. |
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The 1960s
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Dorothy Hoobler |
Inspired after meeting John F. Kennedy at a 1960 campaign fundraiser hosted by the Aldrich family, Chuck defies authority at his Pennsylvania boarding school, Sojie takes part in lunch counter sit-in… |
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The trail on which they wept
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Dorothy Hoobler,Thomas Hoobler |
Forced to leave their homes in Georgia in 1837, Sarah Tsaluh Rogers, her family, and other Cherokees make the long and difficult journey along the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. |
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The 1940s
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Dorothy Hoobler |
Volume Five of the Century Kids focuses on Esther and her parents who, after fleeing Nazi Germany, accept teaching positions at the University of Chicago, but suddenly they move to a strange place ca… |
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The sign painter's secret
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Dorothy Hoobler |
When the Redcoats occupy her house in Philadelphia, young Annie MacDougal finds a way to help General Washington's troops at Valley Forge. |
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The 1950s
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Dorothy Hoobler |
In the 1950s Matthew befriends a Negro boy who introduces him to the new music, and together they start a rock-and-roll band. |
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The 1970s
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Dorothy Hoobler |
America's involvement in Vietnam adds to the seemingly constant arguing in the Vivanti family, whose cousins are among a group of people who have dropped out to live in a commune in Arizona. |
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Photographing the frontier
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Dorothy Hoobler |
Discusses early photographic images of the West and the photographers responsible for these photographic records. |
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Toussaint L'Ouverture
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Dorothy Hoobler,Thomas Hoobler |
A biography of the eighteenth-century slave who led his people in the struggle for an independent Haiti and became its ruler in 1799. |
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