Historical Non-Fiction (8-12) Archives - Classical Education Books https://classic.powertactics.com/product-category/books/age-8-12/historical-non-fiction-age-8-12/ Conveniently Canadian Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:31:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://classic.powertactics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/favicon-32x32.png Historical Non-Fiction (8-12) Archives - Classical Education Books https://classic.powertactics.com/product-category/books/age-8-12/historical-non-fiction-age-8-12/ 32 32 The World of Columbus and Sons https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-world-of-columbus-and-sons-2/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-world-of-columbus-and-sons-2/#respond Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:40:24 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=52723 From the Publisher: Told in Foster's engaging and winsome style enhanced by her helpful chronologies and timelines, readers will learn of the religious, cultural and scientific changes that ushered in a new frontier of exploration and discovery.

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This is the story of a wonderful, changing, reawakening world—the world of the Renaissance and Reformation. Measured by the lifetime of Columbus and his sons, this book spans the years from 1451-1539.

With Columbus as the central figure of this narrative, readers will also learn the fascinating stories of Prince Henry the Navigator, Ivan III of Russia, Gutenberg, Queen Isabella, Leonardo da Vinci, Mohammed II, the African ruler Nomi Mansa, Martin Luther, Erasmus, Albrecht Dürer, Copernicus, Michelangelo and many others.

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The Picture History of Great Inventors https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-picture-history-of-great-inventors/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-picture-history-of-great-inventors/#respond Tue, 13 Sep 2022 23:02:40 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=52325 Here is an entertaining and fact-packed introduction to the great inventors of the world and their inventions.  

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Have you ever wondered who invented the calculator? Or what the first ever map of the world was made of? Or how a computer works?

Follow the lives and work of over 50 major innovators as you set off on a journey from the earliest inventions in recorded history to the most recent developments in science and technology. Colourful, decade-by-decade catalog of the world’s greatest inventors.

Illustrated with 800+ drawings, and bursting with facts, Great Inventors celebrates ingenuity of people throughout the ages. Fascinating read for those curious about the notable, and not so notable, technical achievements that have shaped our lives.

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World War I – The Definitive Visual History https://classic.powertactics.com/product/world-war-i-the-definitive-visual-history/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/world-war-i-the-definitive-visual-history/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:06:50 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=52209 World War I: The Definitive Visual History takes you from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles. Experience some of the most prominent battles, such as the Somme and Verdun, through compelling direct accounts from soldiers who fought as well as civilians who lived through the First World War. Get a close-up [...]

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The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-good-fight-how-world-war-ii-was-won/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-good-fight-how-world-war-ii-was-won/#respond Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:54:09 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=51392 From Japanese warplanes soaring over Pearl Harbor, dropping devastation from the sky, to the against-all-odds Allied victory at Midway, to the Battle of the Bulge during one of the coldest winters in Europe's modern history, to the tormenting decision to bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima with atomic weapons, The Good Fight brings the most horrific—and most heroic—war in [...]

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Pioneer Show People (Dyslexia Series) https://classic.powertactics.com/product/pioneer-show-people-dyslexia-series/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/pioneer-show-people-dyslexia-series/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:43:54 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=51350 This series tells the stories of some of the actors and other performers who traveled the early roads and the river systems of America to take their plays and shows to the settlements along the ever-expanding frontier.

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Being a pioneer on the American frontier was hard work. People had to build a home, raise some animals, and cultivate a garden for food, hunting and trapping to supplement what they needed and braving the elements all the while. It was a lonely existence, too. Many of the pioneers had to travel miles to the nearest homestead or settlement, often through dense woods and across rushing rivers. Many of these hard-scrabble settlers had only one way to experience entertainment and culture: pioneer show people.

The cities along the eastern coast of the United States often had various venues for providing shows and other forms of entertainment, including the theater, museums, and occasionally a circus, but the pioneers farther west had access to none of this. So acting companies like the Drake Players took their shows on the road to bring entertainment to the people. But the roads didn’t go far, and soon the actors had to trade their wagons for a boat. They floated downriver, bringing plays to the towns and settlements that had sprung up along the river systems of America. As their popularity grew, so grew the boats, both in sophistication and in the quality of the entertainment. The Chapman showboat was the first boat to offer plays directly on the boat itself. Doc Spaulding’s Floating Palace, pushed both up and down the rivers by its own steamboat, brought an entire circus to the riverside communities. Seeing a play or a show on a showboat was often the brightest day of the year for the pioneers who had forged past the edges of civilization to expand the boundaries of the United States. And then a small crack shot named Annie Oakley helped to show them what the great American West was all about.

The show people of early America were no less pioneers than the settlers who scraped and scratched out a life for themselves in the country’s great wilderness, and this series brings to the forefront their importance in the expansion not just of culture but of an emerging entertainment industry that was blooming across the nation.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

The Pioneer Show People Dyslexia Series offers a way for children with reading difficulties to enjoy reading and American history in a rare and wonderfully accessible combination that they will treasure for years to come.

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Annie Oakley and the Wild West https://classic.powertactics.com/product/annie-oakley-and-the-wild-west/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/annie-oakley-and-the-wild-west/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:40:41 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=51348 Annie Moses was as sharp a shooter as anyone had seen, and soon this petite, unassuming woman from the backwoods of Ohio was making a name for herself as Annie Oakley, the “Girl of the Western Plains,” as she performed in front of crowds who were awed at her remarkable ability.

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Doc Spaulding and the Floating Palace https://classic.powertactics.com/product/doc-spaulding-and-the-floating-palace/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/doc-spaulding-and-the-floating-palace/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:37:48 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=51346 The Floating Palace was an extraordinary creation—an entire community all its own, filled with characters as colorful as the boat itself.

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By the middle of the 19th century, showboats were a common sight on many of America’s great rivers. But Doc Spaulding wasn’t satisfied with bringing ordinary performances to the riverside settlements. He wanted to bring an entire circus!

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The Chapman Showboat https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-chapman-showboat/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-chapman-showboat/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:35:16 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=51344 In the 1820s, actors and performers crossed the American frontier by both wagon and boat, bringing entertainment to the settlers of the ever-expanding new country.

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William Chapman saw an even better way. Instead of loading and unloading everything time and again, why not hold plays directly on a boat? So the Chapman showboat was born, the very first of its kind.

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The Drake Players Go West https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-drake-players-go-west/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/the-drake-players-go-west/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:31:42 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=51342 In the early days of the new nation that was America, pioneers in newly settled territories had little outside entertainment.

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A traveling company of actors known as the Drake Players went, first by wagon and then by boat, across the frontier, performing plays and bringing an evening of fun to the people along the way. They were the first actors to bring the theater to the American frontier.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

Titles in Series:

The Drake Players Go West
The Chapman Showboat
Doc Spaulding and the Floating Palace
Annie Oakley and the Wild West 

Pioneer Show People (Dyslexia Series) Set 

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Men on Iron Horses (Dyslexia Series) https://classic.powertactics.com/product/men-on-iron-horses-dyslexia-series/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/men-on-iron-horses-dyslexia-series/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:15:52 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=51340 The stories in this series explore the evolution of the locomotive and the development of the railroad in America—and the men who made it happen—revolutionizing the economy and ushering in an era of unity across the country.

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In the early 1830s, people in America began building the first locomotives and laying railroad tracks across the country. Mail, goods, and passengers all needed a way to traverse the nation, and the iron horse seemed the best way to do it. For the next forty years, the railroad slowly snaked westward to the edges of the frontier, then crossed great expanses of untamed wilderness to get to California, connecting East with West in a way that had not been possible before.

The work was not easy, nor was it without problems. Someone had to invent the first locomotive. Someone had to make it work well. Someone had to figure out how to keep passengers from being choked by smoke and burned by falling sparks from the locomotive’s smokestack. Someone had to recognize that the entire system of trains and tracks needed to be standardized so that a train in New York could travel on a track in Boston. Someone had to finance the building of more tracks, cut through prairies and forests, bore through mountains, build bridges over valleys and rivers. None of it was easy. In fact, much of it was dangerous.

The iron horses changed fundamentally how united the people of the United States actually felt, and it also radically revolutionized the economies of not just the many small cities along the railroad but also the country as a whole. But men had to make it work, and the books in this series tell those stories.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

The Men on Iron Horses Dyslexia Series offers a way for children with reading difficulties to enjoy reading and American history in a rare and wonderfully accessible combination that they will treasure for years to come.

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General Dodge and Charlie Crocker Meet in the Middle https://classic.powertactics.com/product/general-dodge-and-charlie-crocker-meet-in-the-middle/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/general-dodge-and-charlie-crocker-meet-in-the-middle/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:07:19 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=51337 General Dodge was in charge of building the Union Pacific Railroad west from Omaha, Nebraska. Charlie Crocker was in charge of building the Central Pacific Railroad east from California. The railroad tracks were supposed to meet in the middle.

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Each man and his crew were determined to get as far as they could as fast as they could. It was a race, and when it was over, the railroad would stretch across the entire United States for the first time ever.

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

Titles in Series:

Peter Cooper’s Horse and a Half 
William Brown Rides the Dewitt Clinton 
Captain Ayres and the Jumping Stick
William Ogden’s Iron Pioneer
Ad Clark’s Record Run to the Pony Express
General Dodge and Charlie Crocker Meet in the Middle 

Men on Iron Horses (Dyslexia Series) Set

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Ad Clark’s Record Run to the Pony Express https://classic.powertactics.com/product/ad-clarks-record-run-to-the-pony-express/ https://classic.powertactics.com/product/ad-clarks-record-run-to-the-pony-express/#respond Wed, 17 Aug 2022 17:03:57 +0000 https://classic.powertactics.com/?post_type=product&p=51335 The first Pony Express ride was a race against time, but the mail had to come from New York before the rider could start out.

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There was a delay, and the train waiting at Hannibal, Missouri, to carry the mail across the state to St. Joseph, where the Pony Express rider waited, couldn’t start on time. The train’s engineer, Ad Clark, had already been told to try to set a speed record, but now he’d have to do better than ever. Just how fast could he push his locomotive?

These books are printed in a special dyslexia-friendly font that makes them easier for some children with visual processing problems to read. A special feature of the books is that each two-page spread contains a QR code that links to audio of the book being narrated. Children can listen and follow along to help them learn the words that they are seeing.

 

Titles in Series:

Peter Cooper’s Horse and a Half 
William Brown Rides the Dewitt Clinton 
Captain Ayres and the Jumping Stick
William Ogden’s Iron Pioneer
Ad Clark’s Record Run to the Pony Express
General Dodge and Charlie Crocker Meet in the Middle 

Men on Iron Horses (Dyslexia Series) Set

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