Illustrations, primary documents, timelines, and maps describe the events leading to the surrender of General Charles Cornwallis to George Washington on October 19, 1781.
A biography of the sixteenth-century cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who invented a method of projecting the curvature of the Earth's surface on to a flat sheet of paper.
Discusses the personal life and political career of the author of the Declaration of Independence, who became the third president of the United States.
This book provides information on Earth's sources of renewable and nonrenewable energy, how they are used, their benefits and disadvantages, their interrelationships with the natural world, and the future of Earth's sources of energy.
Describes the beginning of the Spanish mission system in California, its expansion, and the effects of the missions on the native peoples of that area.