20 Fun Facts About US Monuments

20 Fun Facts About US Monuments
Author: Heather Moore Niver
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1433992116

Countless statutes, sculptures, and structures have been built to celebrate important moments and people in US history. However, some US monuments are structures build before the United States was even a country, and others are landforms produced by natural forces thousands of years ago. The dazzling photographs in this volume are sure to teach and tantalize readers. Age-appropriate text is paired with graphic organizers to help readers get the most from this entertaining guide to US monuments.

20 Fun Facts About the US Flag

20 Fun Facts About the US Flag
Author: Maria Nelson
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1433991969

The Stars and Stripes, with its iconic colors and patterns, has long been a symbol of freedom in the United States and all over the world. But the US flag we're familiar with today has only been around since 1959. Before that, the flag took on many different arrangements. Readers will learn about the many versions of the US flag that came before our current version. Colorful, patriotic photographs aid readers in understanding the text, as do informative graphic organizers.

20 Fun Facts About the Presidency

20 Fun Facts About the Presidency
Author: Janey Levy
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1433991918

Which president had the shortest term, and which was the first to be born in the United States? Which president was the tallest? Who was the shortest? These are just a few of the fun facts readers will find the answers to inside this book. The at-level text is specially designed to make learning about the presidency engaging and fun as well as informative. The fascinating text is augmented with historical images, helpful graphic organizers, and full-color photographs.

20 Things You Didn't Know about U.S. Monuments

20 Things You Didn't Know about U.S. Monuments
Author: Marie Morrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Memorials
ISBN: 9781642826739

"In the nation's capital and throughout the country, many important monuments honor important people and periods from the United States' history. The idea of visiting or learning more about these monuments may sound boring, right? Wrong! This book will lead students through a fascinating trip to many U.S. monuments through fun facts and colorful photographs. Did you know that the Washington Monument was an unfinished stump for more than 20 years? Or that the original design for the Statue of Liberty was very different from the current statue? Learn more in this intriguing book!"--

Monuments

Monuments
Author: Judith Dupré
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Skyscrapers, Churches, and Bridges comes a stunning visual history that serves as a tribute to classic American landmarks.

Seven Wonders of the World

Seven Wonders of the World
Author: Carmella Van Vleet
Publisher: Build It Yourself
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781936313730

Introduces the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World as known to the ancient Greeks, and a multicultural list of seven additional wonders--from Petra, Jordan, to Rio de Janeiro's statue of Christ--and suggests related projects and experiments.

Race and Reunion

Race and Reunion
Author: David W. BLIGHT
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674022092

No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.

Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
Author: Erin L. Thompson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393867684

A leading expert on the past, present, and future of public monuments in America. An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these decisions, and how? Erin L. Thompson, the country’s leading expert in the tangled aesthetic, legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles, brings much-needed clarity in Smashing Statues. She lays bare the turbulent history of American monuments and its abundant ironies, from the enslaved man who helped make the statue of Freedom that tops the United States Capitol, to the fervent Klansman fired from sculpting the world’s largest Confederate monument—who went on to carve Mount Rushmore. And she explores the surprising motivations behind contemporary flashpoints, including the toppling of a statue of Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol, the question of who should be represented on the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park, and the decision by a museum of African American culture to display a Confederate monument removed from a public park. Written with great verve and informed by a keen sense of American history, Smashing Statues gives readers the context they need to consider the fundamental questions for rebuilding not only our public landscape but our nation as a whole: Whose voices must be heard, and whose pain must remain private?

Lynnie and the Gentle Dragon

Lynnie and the Gentle Dragon
Author: Kari Samuels Marina
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-10-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781389525827

Lynnie and the Gentle Dragon is a magical tale of adventure and everlasting friendship. Young Lynnie is swept from her bed one night by a witch and escapes only to find herself lost in an unfamiliar world of dragons and enchantment. In her search to find a way home, she discovers so much more: dragons can be clever and kind, friends show up in the most unlikely places, and love spans beyond space and time. This sweet bedtime story will delight the magical child in us all.

Memorial Articles for 20th Century American Accounting Leaders

Memorial Articles for 20th Century American Accounting Leaders
Author: Stephen A. Zeff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317282671

This collection of memorial articles and selected obituaries highlights the careers and contributions to accounting practice, the accounting profession, and the accounting literature of leading American figures in the 20th century. The memorial articles do much more than recite their subject’s career. More importantly, they discuss and assess their subject’s role in influencing the course of accounting practice and the profession as well as the evolution of their influential writings, revealing the names of the accounting leaders and leading thinkers of the past century. Memorial Articles for 20th Century American Accounting Leaders is useful in providing students and young researchers with a rich source of intelligence on the leaders who have established norms of practice, advanced the profession, and set the terms of debate in the literature – leaders who are cited and even quoted but who are known mostly as names without a full-bodied treatment of their backgrounds and broader roles in shaping the accounting literature.