American Adventures Books from Brooke-Richards Press
American
Adventures: True Stories from America's Past, 1770-1870
American Adventures: True Stories from America's Past
Part 2: 1870 to Present
American Heroes: 1735-1900
 American
Adventures: True Stories from America's Past, 1770-1870 by Morrie
Greenberg. This 8½ x 11 size softcover book contain 15 high-interest stories from
America's history that are not widely known. They are designed to appeal to those who
can't seem to get into the regular texts provided in most secondary history courses. Each
short story is preceded by a time line to put it into the correct historical context, and
a paragraph to describe what else was happening during the period in which the story takes
place. (This is in a box to make it easy to find.) After each story are some suggested
writing/journal activities, some vocabulary or comprehension activities, some discussion
activities, and some related group activities. Each story also has a black and white
illustration. Cat.#BRich1, $8.96-D
Stories are included on the following subjects:
Families from Mexico start
settlement in California in 1781.
George Washington dies at Mt.
Vernon in 1799
Johnny Appleseed begins
distribution of apple seeds in 1800
Decatur killed in duel in
1820.
Sam Patch drowns in
1829
Daughters leave farms to work
at Lowell factory in 1830's
Elizabeth Blackwell
enters medical school in 1847
The California Gold Rush
begins in 1849
The first "orphan
train" leaves New York in 1854.
The first camels are brought
to the American West. in 1856
"Emperor Norton"
begins his rule in San Francisco in 1859
Thousands are killed and
wounded at the Battle of Antietam in September,1862
In 1864 the submarine Hunley
sets out from Charleston Harbor to sink Northern ship.
Nightriders raid Missouri
farm, taking mother and baby in 1865
The Trans-Continental
railroad is completed in 1869.
 American Adventures: True Stories from America's Past Part 2: 1870 to Present by Morrie
Greenberg.
This has the same format and types of actvities and illustration as the first book, above.
Cat. # BRich-2, $8.96-D
Here are the stories:
Abigail
Duniway tries to gain suffrage rights for women in Oregon in 1872.
An invasion of locusts
threatens farm crops in 1974
Thousands of settlers rush
for land in Oklahoma in 1889.
By 1890 almost all of
America's buffalo have disappeared.
President McKinley is
assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt becomes the youngest president in 1901.
The Triangle Company factory
fire rages in 1911.
Pilot Lincoln Beachey
attempts daredevil dive off San Francisco Bay in 1815.
Ponzi promises huge profits
to investors in 1920.
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes
President in 1933.
German saboteurs land in New
York and Florida in 1942.
Rosa Parks makes her
courageous Civil Rights stand by refusing to move to the back of the bus in 1955.
In 1966, Corporal Fernandez
acts heroically in battle during the Vietnam war even as citizens protest at home
The first astronauts land on
the moon in 1969.
San Diego police officers
make heroic rescues in 1988.
The Shuttle Endeavor
astronauts repair the Hubble Telescope in space in 1993.
 American Heroes:
1735-1900 by Morrie Greenberg. This book has the same format as the two
books above, but deals with the people who made American history and some of the issues of
history that were meaningful to them. There is a brief introduction to each person before
the story where he/she is featured. Each story centers on one important incident in the
subject's life. Here are the people covered: Peter Zenger, George Washington, Benjamin
Banneker, Dolley Madison, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Goodyear, Dorothea Dix, Robert E. Lee,
Clara Barton, Henry Bergh, Chief Joseph, Jacob Riis, John Muir, Charles Steinmetz, and
Walter Reed. Cat #BRich#3, $8.96-D
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