Product Description: Following his New York Times bestseller America's Hidden History, Kenneth C. Davis explores the gritty first half of the nineteenth century—among the most tumultuous periods in this nation's short life. In the dramatic period that spans roughly from 1800 through 1850, the United States emerged from its inauspicious beginning as a tiny newborn nation, struggling for survival and political cohesion on the Atlantic seaboard, to a near-empire that spanned the continent...read more

Product Description: Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character...read more

Product Description: Did George Washington really chop down the cherry tree? How was James Madison a father if he didn't have any children? Where in the White House did William Howard Taft get stuck? Hail to the chief! The commander in chief is the leader of our nation—the president of the United States...read more

Product Description: For years, Kenneth C. Davis has enlightened and enthralled us, opening our minds and tickling our fancies with his wonderfully irreverent, fun, and factual Don't Know Much About® books. He has carried readers on wild and edifying rides through history, mythology, geography, the Bible, the Civil War, even across the universe...read more

Learn about the life of the great civil rights leader.

Examines Rosa Parks and the influences on her life that led to her arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, and discusses her continued involvement in the civil rights movement.

Reprint. Originally published: 2001.

Using a question-answer format, this chronological overview offers an informal introduction to American history and features annotated reading lists and biographical profiles.

Examines the childhood and youth, education, law career, family life, and presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

Provides a variety of facts about the presidents of the United States in question and answer format.

Product Description: Do You Know Sitting Bull?A True or False QuizSitting Bull killed his first buffalo when he was only ten years old.He once adopted a boy from an enemy tribe.After winning the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull and his people were allowed to keep their land...read more

Anecdotes, sidebars, and a question-and-answer format provide information on the history of astronomy, the experience of astronaunts, the size of the universe, and the composition of stars and planets.

Product Description: Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical Star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials?From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-Files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages...read more