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Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City
Skyscrapers define the American city. Through a narrative text and gorgeous historical photographs, Skywalkers by David Weitzman explores Native Ameri...
The Airplane that Taught America to Fly
Barely 40 years separate the Wright brothers' flight and those of the first jet aircraft. The World War II pilots who were the first to fly those jets...
Discovering Our Industrial Past
A guide to the study of America's industrial past through examination of early engines, furnaces, locomotives, windmills, foundries, canals, bridges, ...
With poetic language and striking illustrations, Weitzman tells the story of how one of the greatest boats of ancient Egypt came to be built-and built...
How Henry Ford Built a Legend
Somehow Henry Ford knew what Americans were hankering for: “Everybody wants to be someplace he ain’t. As soon as he gets there, he wants to go rig...
A Field Guide to Industrial Archaeology
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The Mountain Man And The President...
An Everyday Guide to Exploring the American Past
A Memoir of the Marquis de Lafayette
David Weitzman has written the only first-person account of the life and revolutionary times of Gilbert du Motier-better known as the Marquis de Lafay...
A British Locomotive Comes to America
Here is the story of one of the most influential early locomotives in America, the John Bull. Imported from England in 1831, this amazing workhorse wa...
Offers readers the factual account of how the first section of the New York City's subway system was able to transport its many passengers from areas ...
Communicating Across Time and Space
Theater
Presents biographies of more than twenty actors and playwrights who have left their mark on the theater, including Anton Chekhov, Edwin Booth, Sarah B...
Presents biographical profiles of twenty-eight anthropologists and archaeologists, including Jane Goodall, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Leakey....
Harvest Days in the Dakotas
A young boy describes his life on the family farm in North Dakota in 1912, particularly the arrival of a new steam-powered threshing machine....