Dark Days: America's Great Depression
Richard Peck, Bruce Glassman, Jackie French Koller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gail B. Stewart, Robert J. Hastings, Harry Mark Petrakis, Thelma Bemount Campbell, Karen Hesse, Dorothea Lange, Pat Mora, Marion Gross, Virginia Durr, Studs Terkel, and more.
Free at Last: The Struggle for Civil Rights
Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. De Bois, Richard Wright, Rita Dove, Melba Pattillo Beals, Margaret Walker, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, Nikki Giovanni, Barack Obama, and more.
From There to Here: The Immigrant Experience
Emma Lazarus, Milton Meltzer, Russell Freedman, Nicholas Gage, Ronald Takaki, Yoshiko Uchida, Stephen Sondheim, Margaret Poynter, Marion Espada, Paul Fleischman, William E. Geist, Roberto Suroeste, Charles Osgood, Pay Mora, and more.
The Harlem Renaissance
Vivian Morris, Dorothy West, Frank Byrd, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Marcus Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, Caroline Bond Day, Rudolph Fisher, Janet Mabie, Spike Lee, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and more.
A House Divided: America's Civil War
Mary Boykin Chestnut, Bruce Catton, Ray Bradbury, Herman Melville, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James McPherson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gary Paulsen, Abraham Lincoln, Lousa May Alcott, Robert E. Lee, Hilary MacKenzie, Linda Pastan, and more.
Times of Change: Vietnam and the 60s
Thuong Vuong-Riddick, M. Hirsh Goldberg, Tim O'Brien, Alex Forman, Estela Portillo, Hugh Thompson, Ben Fong-Torres, Marc Aronson, Tom Hayden, President Richard M. Nixon, Ron Kovic, President Gerald R. Ford, Gary Paulsen, Joel L. Swerdlow, and more.
Voices of the Holocaust
Hans Peter Richter, Eleanor Ayer, Amos Neufeld, Gail Newman, Arnold Geier, Lyn Lifshin, John Roth, Ida Fink, Yala Korwin, Ephim Fogel, Freida Singer, Jacob G. Hornberger, Bernard Gotfryd, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elie Wiesel, Mary Ann Lickteig, and more.
Wide Open Spaces: American Frontiers
Stephen Vincent Bent, Meriwether Lewis et al, Christina Beck, Joseph Bruchac, Mary Moore, George Ella Lyon, Jacob W. Davis, William W. Howard, Stephen Crane, Robert Boylan, Tom Wolfe, Miguel Asgarin, Michael D. Lemonick, Ray Bradbury, and more.
And Justice for All
David Gifaldi, Johannes Junius with Milton Meltzer, Anita Gustafson, Johnny D. Boggs, Isaac Bashevis Singer, w.r. rodriguez, Sharon Creeden, William Shakespeare, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Margaret Truman, Joan Bauer, Gwendolyn Brooks, and more.
The Best of Friends
Gary Paulsen, Bailey White, Tim Wynne-Jones, Langston Hughes, Helie Lee and Stephanie Covington, Neal Shusterman, Nancy Werlin, Francesca Delbanco, Kirsten Weir, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Ellen Conford, Debbie Spring, Dawna Markova, and more.
Decisions, Decisions
Ouida Sebestyen, Julia Alvarez, Jane McFann, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Gary Beeman, William Stafford, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Maria Testa, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Slade Anderson, Pamela Grim, Todd Moore, Rosa Parks, Dave Barru. Big Wilson, and more.
Family Matters
Susan Haven, Luci Tapahonso, Gary Paulsen, Budge Wilson, Ramona Wilson, Paula Lynn Parks, Erma Bombeck, Richard Pindell, Paulette Childress White, Nikki Giovanni, Jane Yolen, Jane Martin, William Stafford, Vickie Sears, Susan Beth Pfeffer, and more.
On the Edge of Survival
Jane Yolen, Mel Glenn, Tim Cahill, Gary Paulsen, Jack Finney, Robert Abel, Theodore Waldeck, Robert Rosenblatt, David Gifaldi, Williams Forrest, Jon Krakauer, and more.
To Be a Hero
Gary Paulsen, Joseph Bruchac, Nicholas Gage, Phil Taylor, Jane Yolen, Ian Frazier, Christy Brown, Robert Hayden, Rosemary Sutcliff, Kristin Hunter, Brian M. Thomsen, Gordon Korman, Daniel Okrent, David Dinkins, Nikki Giovanni, Nancy Shimmel, and more.
Who Am I?
Vivian Vande Velde, David Raymond, Judith Ortíz Cofer, Budge Wilson, Debra Marquart, M.E. Kerr, Diana Change, Gary Soto, Chaim Potok, Emily Dickinson, Todd Strasser, Victor Hernández Cruz, Lensey Namioka, Jill Krementz, Jane Yolen, and more.
Echoes from Mt. Olympus
Bernard Evelin, Dorothy Evelin, Ned Hoopes, Louis Untermeyer, Barbara McBride-Smith, Olivia E. Coolidge, Rita Dove, W.H.D. Rouse, Margaret Atwood, Barbara McBride-Smith, Richard Woff, Suniti Namjoski, Borden Deal, Jane Yolen, and more.
Flights of Fantasy
Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, Tamora Pierce, Lord Dunsany, Marvin Kaye, John Collier, Louis Untermeyer, Peter Dickinson, Neal Shusterman, Nancy Springer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Patricia C. Wrede, Elise Matthysen, Ruth Trowbridge, and more.
The Main Event
Robert Lipsyte, Samuel Hazo, May Sewnson, James DIckey, Dan Cray, Rina Ferrarelli, Richard Alan Nesbitt, Dave Barry, Thomas J. Dygard, Merrell Noden, Rae Rainey, Jackie Robinson, Ira Berkow, E.B. White, William Hazlitt Upson, Will Weaver, and more.
Mysterious Circumstances
Paul Bishop, Agatha Christie, Linda Pastan, Mary Higgins Clark, Sue Grafton, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Maples, Roald Dahl, Lesley Grant-Adamson, Josh Pachter, Williwam Brittain, and more.
The Sci-Fi Factor
Paul Jennings, Isaac Asimov, Craig Raine, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Dave Barry, Helen Chasin, Fredric Brown, Nicholas Stuart Gray, Julie Nobles, Carol Farley, Norman Spinrad, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mildred Clingerman, W. Hilton-Young, and more.
What on Earth? An Ecology Reader
William J. Brooke, Gregg Easterbrook, Gary Soto, Joseph Bruchac, Rachel Carson, Joe Kane, Dave Barry, Ray Bradbury, John Card, Mary Oliver, David Quammen, David Wagoner, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Gary Paulsen, Katherine Paterson, and more.
What's So Funny?
Dave Barry, Barbara Robinson, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Ellen Conford, David Brenner, Joan Bauer, Sinbad, Carolyn J. Gard, Erma Bombeck, Patrick F. McManus, Nancy Belshow, Merrill Markoe, and more.
Individal Rights: The Blessings of Liberty
Moses Seixas and George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Aquiles Lewis, Judge Learned Hand, Justice Arthur Goldberg, Akhil Reed Amar, George Orwell, Abdus Sattar Ghazali, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, James A. Emanuel, Chief Justice John Roberts, and more.
The Three Branches of Government
John F. Kennedy, Stephen L. Carter, Lee Hamilton, Leslie Stahl, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Rudy Ruiz, Alexander Hamilton, Stephen L. Carter, Sonia Sotomayor, Eric A. Posner, Thurgood Marshall, and more.
We the People: Foundations of American Government
Victor Landa, Sarah Vowell, Patrick Henry, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Fredrick Douglass, Ta-Nehisi Coates and blog contributors, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Linda Chavez, Jill Lepore, Thomas Sowell, March Massura, Margaret Cho, and more.
