Doody Enterprises : "Twenty-four biographies are provided here with an additional article, "Confederate Leaders," which includes brief articles about Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Alexander Stephens and Robert A. Toombs. These articles are long enough to start students on reports about important persons in this time....
Many American history books begin with the year 1492 and the discovery of the Caribbean Islands by Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). For the great civilizations of Mesoamerica and South America, though, 1492 proved to be the beginning of the end of their civilization. The products of thousands of years of history—the...
