Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor

Author: Julie Murray

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2023-08-01

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1098281942

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This title will help readers understand the causes, timeline, and aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The title is complete with glossary, index, and additional facts. This title is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to Common Core Standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.

As If She Were Free
As If She Were Free

Author: Erica L. Ball

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 1108493408

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A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.

Quincy, Illinois
Quincy, Illinois

Author: Carl Landrum

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780738507835

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When John Wood built his first log cabin in 1822 at what is now Front and Delaware Streets, he began a settlement that would become Quincy, Illinois. To the east was a high bluff, and to the west, the Mississippi River. As the town grew, it moved eastward onto the bluff. In Qunicy's early days, the settlers depended on the Mississippi River for their livelihood. Today's residents still depend upon the Mississippi, but now more for transportation and for pleasure. It is difficult today to imagine what the area looked like in those early years. As with many American towns, Quincy has experienced change through the years, dramatic and subtle, both captured here in the unforgettable images of Then & Now: Quincy, Illinois.

Infamy
Infamy

Author: John Toland

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780425090404

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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author, a revealing account of the events surrounding the day that the Japanese military launched a sneak attack on U.S. forces stationed in Pearl Harbor. Includes evidence that top U.S. officials knew about the attack but remained silent for political reasons and the conspiracy afterward to hide the facts. Photographs.

Lies Told Under Oath
Lies Told Under Oath

Author: Beth Lane

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1462076300

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In 1912, a prosperous Illinois farm family Charles; his wife, Mathilda; their fifteen-year-old daughter, Blanche; and boarding schoolteacher Emma Kaempen were brutally murdered, the crime concealed by arson, and the family's surviving son, handsome Ray Pfanschmidt, arrested. He was convicted by the press long before trial. In Lies Told Under Oath, author Beth Lane retells the story of the murders, the trial, the verdict, and the aftermath. Using information culled from actual trial transcripts and newspaper accounts, Lane presents the day-to-day testimony as Ray's battle for his life surged through three courtrooms the drama complicated by brilliant attorneys, allegations of perjury, charges of rigged evidence, jailhouse informants, legal loopholes, conflict over the large estate being inherited by the alleged murderer, and appeals to the state supreme court. The remaining family became divided over Ray's guilt while his fiancée staunchly stood by him. Lies Told Under Oath provides a fascinating, historical account of the times and the people when science was in its infancy, telephones meant shared party lines, bloody evidence was contested (or contrived), and automobiles competed with bloodhounds and buggies. It captures the essence of an emotional crime that rocked this small Illinois community.