Featuring more than 1,000 photos, plus maps, charts, and profiles of famous Americans, this major reference is an essential resource for helping children relate today's news to the events of the past. Full color.

As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, a local commissaire was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of... [More...]

This anthology looks at some of the political scandals in our nation's history including Aaron Burr's killing of Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson and the "Peggy Eaton Affair," Ulysses S. Grant and post-Civil War corruption, the "Robber Barons," Boss Tweed... [More...]