Examines different kinds of trains, including old steam engines, high-speed trains in Japan, the world's longest freight train, and more.

"A picture book biography of Dr. William Key, a former slave and self-trained veterinarian who taught his horse Jim to read and write and who together with Jim became one of the most famous traveling performance acts around the turn of the twentieth century"--

"From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton, women throughout US history have fought for equality ... Hopkinson chronicles the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were demanding the right to vote. She explores the 1960s, which pushed equal rights and opportunities for women--both at home and in the workplace--even further, and then moves toward present-day...

Presents illustrated profiles of every American president up to George W. Bush, briefly describing their challenges in office, their popularity, and their wives and families.

ÅSabâias que " En Dios confiamos" proviene del poema " La bandera estrellada" ? El lema fue impreso por primera vez en una moneda de dos centavos en 1864. Descubre mâas datos fascinantes en El lema, uno de los libros de âIconos Americanos. Did you know that "In God We Trust" comes from the poem "The Star-Spangled Banner"? The slogan was first printed in a two-cent coin in 1864. See more fascinating facts in The Motto, an American Icons book.

Discusses the suffrage movement in the American West as Wyoming Territory granted voting rights to women in 1869 driving the women's rights movement in the West.

A biography of the African-American woman who went from being a laundress to a self-made millionaire.

This book, in graphic novel format, follows Babe Ruth through the 1927 season and describes his attempt to break his own home run record.