CREDITS Pop-Up Features Immigration Nast Cartoon: © Library of Congress Chinese Exclusion Act: © Scholastic Inc. Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island, c. 1903: © CriticalPast; Sounddogs.com The New Colossus: © Greg Coon/Shutterstock.com Immigrant Success Stories: © Christopher Kolk/Corbis Images; Douglas C. Pizac/AP Images; Steven Senne/AP Images; Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Images Ellis Island Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island, c. 1903: © CriticalPast; Sounddogs.com A Boy's Journey to America: © Scholastic Inc. Immigrant Literacy Test: © Library of Congress Aerial View of Ellis Island: © Library of Congress Buttonhook: © Decorative Arts/Alamy Images Annie Moore: © Glyn Genin/Alamy Images Ocean Liner Advertisement: © Heritage Images/Corbis Images Ellis Island Immigration Museum: © gary718/Shutterstock.com; Ellis Island National Monument; Rene Mattes/Hemis/Corbis Images; Sounddogs.com The Statue of Liberty The New Colossus: © Greg Coon/Shutterstock.com Marquis de Lafayette: © Library of Congress New York Harbor, 1871: Audio: © Scholastic Inc. Image: © The Granger Collection, New York Deed to the Statue of Liberty: © NARA Invitation to the Dedication of the Statue of Liberty: © Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address: © LibriVox Lincoln Stamps: © imagebroker/Heinz-Dieter Falkenstein/Newscom; Oleg Golovnev/Shutterstock.com; rook76/Shutterstock.com; Neftali/Shutterstock.com Fort Sumter Letters: Audio: © Scholastic Inc. Image: © Library of Congress; akgimages/Newscom Rail Splitting: © Jim Holden/Alamy Images; Darren K. Fisher/Shutterstock.com; Justin Falls/The Daily News-Record/AP Images Lincoln's Last Descendants: © Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection/Indiana State Museum and Allen County Public Library Handwritten Emancipation Proclamation: © NARA Lincoln's Assassination: © Library of Congress; Bettmann/Corbis Images; The Granger Collection, New York; George Eastman House/Getty Images; Sounddogs.com The Emancipation Proclamation Eyewitness Account: © Scholastic Inc. Horace Greeley Letter: Audio: © Scholastic Inc. Image: © Library of Congress Response to General Order No. 11: © Library of Congress Booker T. Washington: © Library of Congress Soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment: © State Archives of Florida; Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA, USA/The Bridgeman Art Library International Ltd., London/New York War Photos of Alexander Gardner: © Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress Obama Speech: Audio: © Archive.org. Image: © Alex Brandon/AP Images Gettysburg Gettysburg Address: © LibriVox A Soldier's Letter: © Scholastic Inc. Fort Sumter Political Cartoon: © Library of Congress Draft of the Gettysburg Address: © Library of Congress Gettysburg Battlefield: Courtesy of David Lindroth, Inc. Gettysburg Today: © Jeremy R. Smith Sr./Shutterstock.com; H. Mark Weidman Photography/Alamy Images; Pat and Chuck Blackley/Alamy Images; Dennis MacDonald/Alamy Images; Geoffrey Kuchera/Shutterstock.com; Sounddogs.com Gettysburg Photographs: © Alexander Gardner/NARA; Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress; Library of Congress; Timothy H. O'Sullivan/Library of Congress The Surrender at Appomattox Civil War Amputation Kit: © J. Fishkin Medical Stock Photo/Newscom Fort Stedman Sketches: © Sonofthesouth.net Traveller: © Corbis Images The Burning of Richmond: © Scholastic Inc. Robert E. Lee's Farewell Address: © Scholastic Inc. Lincoln Letter to Grant: Audio: © Scholastic Inc. Image: © Library of Congress The Underground Railroad Sojourner Truth: © Library of Congress Go Down, Moses: Audio: © University of California. Image: © H.T. Burleigh/Duke University/Library of Congress (photo) Reward Poster: © Library of Congress Hiding Places on the Underground Railroad: © Tom Uhlman/Alamy Images; Kayte Deioma/PhotoEdit; Science Faction/Superstock, Inc.; Douglas Healey/Wilton Historical Society/AP Images; Levi Coffin House/waynet.org World War I Truman Letter: Audio: © Scholastic Inc. Image: © Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (photo) Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: © DEA Picture Library/Getty Images; Mansell/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images Aerial View of Trenches: © Imperial War Museum Battle of Jutland: © battle-of-jutland.com Spartacus League Poster: © Archives Charmet/The Bridgeman Art Library International Ltd., London/New York World War I Photos: © dpa/Landov; akg-images/Newscom; Hulton-Deutsch/Corbis Images; battle-of-jutland.com World War II World War II Slideshow: © NARA/U.S. Army Center for Military History; U.S. Army Center for Military History Blitzkrieg: © Corbis Motion Winston Churchill Speech: © The Churchill Centre and Museum Attack on Pearl Harbor: © Archive.org Rosie the Riveter: © J. Howard Miller Kamikaze Attack: © NARA Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima: © Joe Rosenthal/AP Images Hiroshima Bombing: © Corbis Motion The Nuclear Age Nuclear Fission: © Stefan-Xp Hiroshima Photographs: © NARA; Dean S. Pemberton Duck and Cover: © U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" Speech: © Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Rusk Signing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: © Corbis Images Chernobyl Tourism: © AFP/Getty Images Nuclear Power Plants in Germany: © MCT/Newscom The Civil Rights Movement Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas: © Bettmann/Corbis Images Johnson Supports Voting Bill: © LBJ Library JFK Civil Rights Speech, 1963: © John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Literacy Test Cartoon: © Library of Congress Selma-Montgomery March, 1965: © PublicDomainFootage.com Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Washington, D.C.: © National Park Service, Produced by Greater Washington National Parks Office of Communications The Space Race Apollo-Soyuz Docking: © NASA Friendship 7 Liftoff: © NASA; Sounddogs.com Gemini Cutaway: © Scholastic Inc. JFK Speech: © Langley Research Center/NASA Apollo 11 Moon Landing: © NASA Soviet Military Parade: © Corbis Motion; DVarchive First Space Walk: © NASA The Persian Gulf War OPEC Members: © AFP/Newscom General Norman Schwarzkopf: © Sadayuki Mikami/Department of Defense/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images Operation Desert Storm: © U.S. Air Force; Tech. Sgt. Joe Coleman/U.S. Department of Defense; Frank Trevino/Defense Imagery; Scholastic Inc. Pres. Bush Announces Attacks: © Miller Center America's Struggle with Terrorism Haymarket Flyers: © Chicago History Museum Beirut Embassy Bombing, 1983: © ITN Source Lockerbie Bombing, 1988: © Crown Office/AP Images; Martin Cleaver/AP Images 9/11: Plane Hitting South Tower: © ITN Source The Hunt for Osama bin Laden: © AFP/Getty Images/Newscom; Sayyid Azim/AP Images; FBI/AP Images; Suzanne Plunkett/AP Images; SIPA/Newscom; Paula Bronstein/Getty Images; Charles Dharapak/AP Images The Great Recession FDR's First Fireside Chat: Audio: © Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. Image: © Philip Gendreau/Bettmann/Corbis Images George W. Bush Speech, 2008: © The White House Damon Rich Art Exhibit: © Ruth Fremson/The New York Times/Redux Pictures Poverty and the Great Recession: © Scholastic Inc. Barack Obama Speech, 2009: © The White House Homeland Security If You See Something Say Something PSA: © U.S Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security Act of 2002: © The White House History of the National Border Patrol: © National Border Patrol Museum Surveillance Drone: © U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Public Affairs Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: © U.S. Coast Guard The French and Indian War The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion: Audio: © Scholastic Inc. Image: © North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy Images Letter from George Washington: © Scholastic Inc. In Europe, Britain's Ally Prussia Fought Nearly Alone: © The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Art Library International Ltd., London/New York Fort Ticonderoga: © Emory Kristof/National Geographic/Getty Images; Mira/Alamy Images; Philip Scalia/Alamy Images; Universal Images Group/Superstock, Inc.; Ambient Images Inc./Superstock, Inc.; Mike Groll/AP Images Uniforms of the French and Indian War: © Philip Scalia/Alamy Images The Revolutionary War Spirit of '76 and Yankee Doodle: Audio: © 3d United States Infantry Regiment Fife and Drum Corps/U.S. Army. Image: © Corbis Images Stamp Act Cartoon: © Time Inc. Picture Collection/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Declaration of Independence: © NARA Washington at Valley Forge: © The Granger Collection, New York Lexington-Concord Landmarks: © jiawangkun/Shutterstock.com; Jeremy Edmanson/World Pictures/Photoshot/Newscom; Norman Barrett/Alamy Images; Robert E. Klein/AP Images; Andre Jenny Stock Connection September 11 We Will Never Forget If You See Something, Say Something PSA: © U.S Department of Homeland Security The Hunt for Osama bin Laden: © AFP/Getty Images/Newscom ; Sayyid Azim/AP Images; FBI/AP Images; Suzanne Plunkett/AP Images; SIPA/Newscom; Paula Bronstein/Getty Images; Charles Dharapak/AP Images Surviving the Disaster: © Reuters/ITN Source Anthrax Investigators: © Michael Kleinfeld/UPI/Newscom Terrorist Training Camp: © Getty Images George W. Bush 9/11 Speech: © NARA The War in Afghanistan Soviets Exiting Afghanistan, 1989: © ITN Source Burkas: © Jenny Matthews/In Pictures/Corbis Images Afghan Presidential Election Results, 2004: © Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan Improvised Explosive Devices: © U.S. Army Photo Obama's Speech at West Point, 2009: © The White House The Declaration of Independence National Archives: © East/Shutterstock.com; Antonio Jorge Nunes/Shutterstock.com; NARA; trekandshoot/Shutterstock.com; Brandon Bourdages/Shutterstock.com; Library of Congress; Oasis/Photos 12/Alamy Images; The Granger Collection, New York; Massimo Borchi/Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis Images; Michael Ventura/Alamy Images Boston Tea Party: © Library of Congress Letter from Abigail Adams: Audio: © Scholastic Inc. Image: © The Granger Collection, New York The Louisiana Purchase Letter to George Rogers Clark: © Scholastic Inc. A New Diversity: © The Historic New Orleans Collection; Mary Evans Picture Library/The Image Works Seaman: © Andre Jenny Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom Westward Movement: © The Bridgeman Art Library International, Ltd., London/New York; Bettmann/Corbis Images; Christie's Images/The Bridgeman Art Library International, Ltd., London/New York; Superstock, Inc.; North Wind Picture Archives; The Granger Collection, New York; Walters Art Museum Baltimore/The Bridgeman Art Library International, Ltd., London/New York; Huntington Library/Superstock, Inc.; Sounddogs.com Drawings from the Journals of Lewis and Clark: © North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy Images; American Philosophical Society Barack Obama President Obama's Birth Certificate: © The White House Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: © Bettmann/Corbis Images Barack Obama Inaugural Address: © The White House Obama Speech on Supreme Court Decision on Health Care Law: © The White House Obama Announcing Death of Osama bin Laden, 2011: © The White House The Bill of Rights King John Signing the Magna Carta, 1215: © Bettmann/Corbis Images Revisions to Bill of Rights: © NARA Selma, 1965: © The Lima News James Madison Papers: © Library of Congress Miranda Rights: © bbbvideo/iStockphoto Judge Setting Bail: © ITN Source National Archives: © East/Shutterstock.com; Antonio Jorge Nunes/Shutterstock.com; NARA; trekandshoot/Shutterstock.com; Brandon Bourdages/Shutterstock.com; Library of Congress; Oasis/Photos 12/Alamy Images; The Granger Collection, New York; Massimo Borchi/Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis Images; Michael Ventura/Alamy Images The U.S. Constitution Articles of Confederation: © Library of Congress James Madison Papers: © Library of Congress National Archives: © East/Shutterstock.com; Antonio Jorge Nunes/Shutterstock.com; NARA; trekandshoot/Shutterstock.com; Brandon Bourdages/Shutterstock.com; Library of Congress; Oasis/Photos 12/Alamy Images; The Granger Collection, New York; Massimo Borchi/Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis Images; Michael Ventura/Alamy Images Shays's Rebellion: © Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library, Deerfield, Massachusetts George Washington Letter, 1793: © Scholastic Inc. Jefferson Victory Banner: © The Granger Collection, New York Lincoln on Slavery: © Scholastic Inc. Suffrage Headline: © Library of Congress The Branches of U.S. Government Articles of Confederation: © Library of Congress The U.S. Capitol: © Architect of the Capitol Facts about George Washington: © Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA/The Bridgeman Art Library International Ltd., London/New York; Raeky Emancipation Proclamation: © NARA Brown v. Board Decision: © Library of Congress Nixon Resignation Speech: © Archive.org Citizenship Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island, c. 1903: © CriticalPast; Sounddogs.com The New Colossus: © Greg Coon/Shutterstock.com National Archives: © East/Shutterstock.com; Antonio Jorge Nunes/Shutterstock.com; NARA; trekandshoot/Shutterstock.com; Brandon Bourdages/Shutterstock.com; Library of Congress; Oasis/Photos 12/Alamy Images; The Granger Collection, New York; Massimo Borchi/Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis Images; Michael Ventura/Alamy Images Suffrage Headline: © Library of Congress President Obama's Birth Certificate: © The White House President Obama on Citizenship: © The White House Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: © Bettmann/Corbis Images The Democratic Process James Madison Papers: © Library of Congress Shays's Rebellion: © Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association Library, Deerfield, Massachusetts The Magna Carta: © The British Library Johnson Supports Voting Bill: © LBJ Library The Industrial Revolution Mill Girl: © Scholastic Inc. Erie Canal Song: © Erie Canal Village Cotton Gin Model: © Everett Collection, Inc. Water Wheel: © Franc Podgorsek/iStockphoto First Telegraph Message: © Library of Congerss; DW-Pixel/Shutterstock.com; A&E Television Networks/Getty Images; Sounddogs.com Model T Assembly Line: © Corbis Motion; Sounddogs.com
© Copyright 2026 Paperzz