Books written by Linda Barrett Osborne
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The Nation's Library: The Library of Congress, Washington
"A newly up-dated and re-designed celebration and guide to the Library of Congress"--
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Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the People who Made it Happen
Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African Americans.
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Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years
DIVTold through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the ...
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Guardians of Liberty: Freedom of the Press and the Nature of News
A riveting introduction to the crucial role of First Amendment rights and the media Guardians of Liberty explores the essential and basic American ideal of freedom of the press.
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This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
We are paid 20 cents a crate for every crate we finish. Today I finish 10 crates only, so I made $2.00 exactly. . . . The women are all pieceworkers, especially the spinach cutters. The women who have been working in the cannery every ...
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Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the People who Made it Happen
Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African Americans.
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Come On In, America: The United States in World War I
Come On In, America explores not only how and why the United States joined World War I, but also the events—at home and overseas—that changed the course of American history. “Effectively juxtaposes issues such as censorship, ...
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The Nation's Library: The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Scala Books has collaborated with the Library of Congress in the publication of this celebratory guide to one of the world's great libraries. Illustrated in color throughout, it shows the...
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Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience from the Collections of the Library of Congress
For this book, the authors have selected 500 images related to the rich history of Italian Americans from the Library of Congress's holdings of photographs, maps, posters, letters, films, and sound recordings.
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Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction
This book features illustrations, original documents, photographs and first-person narratives to give an account of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Includes a time line (p. 118-119).
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Come On In, America: The United States in World War I
"Come On In, America explores not only how and why the United States joined World War I, but also the events--at home and overseas--that changed the course of American history."--
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Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen
A personal look at the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s told through dozens of interviews conducted by Washington, D.C., fourth graders with their parents, grandparents, neighbors, and others who helped fight the battle against ...
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Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the People who Made it Happen
Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African Americans.