What Was? – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien What Was?. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
81 produkter
What Is Juneteenth?
Av Kirsti Jewel, Who HQ
Häftad, 2022
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Discover more about Juneteenth, the important holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered around a Union solder and listened as he read the most remarkable words they would ever hear. They …
What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?
Av Caleb Gayle, Who HQ
Häftad, 2023
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Before May 31, 1921, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a thriving neighbourhood of 10,000 Black residents. There, Black families found success and community. They ran their own businesses, including barbershops, clothing stores, jewellers, restaurants, movie theatres, and more. There …
What Was Stonewall?
Av Nico Medina, Who HQ
Häftad, 2019
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, police arrived at the Stonewall Inn’s doors and yelled, “Police! We’re taking the place!” But the people in this New York City neighbourhood bar, members of the LGBTQ community, were tired of being harassed. They rebelled in the streets, turning one …
What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
Häftad, 2020
71 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn’t go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to …
What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
Av Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What Was the Wild West?
Häftad, 2017
156 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The west was at its wildest from 1865 to 1895, when territories west of the Mississippi River remained untamed and lawless. Famous for cowboys, American Indians, lawmen, gunslingers, pioneers, and prospectors, this period in US history captures the imagination of all kids and now is brought vividly …
What Was the Boston Tea Party?
Av Kathleen Krull, Who HQ
Häftad, 2013
125 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A new series presented in the same format and designed for the same audience as the phenomenally successful Who Was...? series offers compelling, easy-to-read accounts of historical events that changed our world and includes 16 pages of photos and reproductions as well as illustrations. …
What Was the Gold Rush?
Av Joan Holub, Who HQ
Häftad, 2013
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A new series presented in the same format and designed for the same audience as the phenomenally successful Who Was...? series offers compelling, easy-to-read accounts of historical events that changed our world and includes 16 pages of photos and reproductions as well as illustrations. …
What Was Pearl Harbor?
Av Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ
Häftad, 2013
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A terrifying attack! On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled into World …
What Was the Alamo?
Av Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of …
What Was the Underground Railroad?
Av Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ
Häftad, 2013
165 kr
Lägg i varukorg
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the …
What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Häftad, 2014
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the "Corps of Discovery" left St. Louis, Missouri, on May 21, 1804, their mission was to explore the vast, unknown territory acquired a year earlier in the Louisiana Purchase. The travellers hoped to find a waterway that crossed the western half of the …
What Were the Salem Witch Trials?
Av Joan Holub, Who HQ
Häftad, 2015
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when two girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, began having hysterical fits. Soon after, other local girls claimed they were being pricked with pins. With no scientific explanation available, the …
What Was Pompeii?
Av Jim O'Connor, Who HQ
Häftad, 2014
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than a memory for …
What Is the Statue of Liberty?
Av Joan Holub, Who HQ
Häftad, 2014
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn how the Statue of Liberty made her way to New York Harbor in this fascinating history for young readers, part of the beloved What Was? series. The perfect way to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary! In 1876, France decided to give the United States a very big and …
What Was the Hindenburg?
Häftad, 2014
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than the Titanic! Also of a disastrous end, the zeppelin burst into flame as spectators watched it attempt to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. In under a minute, the Hindenburg was gone, people …
What Is the World Series?
Av Gail Herman, Who HQ
Häftad, 2015
99 kr
Lägg i varukorg
"Strike – you’re out!" "He’s safe!" "Homerun!" Every October, millions of baseball fans around the country anxiously wait to see which team wins baseball's biggest championship. But the original games of the 1900s hardly look like they do today. Take a look back over one hundred years and discover …
What Was D-Day?
Av Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ
Häftad, 2015
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany …
What Was the Great Depression?
Häftad, 2015
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to a record low. But this event was only the beginning of many bad years to come. By the early 1930s, one out of three people was not working. People lost …
What Is the Declaration of Independence?
Häftad, 2016
76 kr
Lägg i varukorg
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Step back in time to the creation of America’s founding document with this fascinating history for young readers, part of the beloved What Was? series. The perfect way to celebrate the U.S.A.’s 250th anniversary! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas …
What Were the Twin Towers?
Av Jim O'Connor, Who HQ
Häftad, 2016
98 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A series presented in the same format and designed for the same audience as the phenomenally successful Who Was...? series offers compelling, easy-to-read accounts of historical events that changed our world and includes 16 pages of photos and reproductions as well as illustrations. Simultaneous …
What Are the Summer Olympics?
Av Gail Herman, Who HQ
Häftad, 2016
99 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Back in 775 BC, athletes from all over Ancient Greece came together to compete in various games. The contests were held every four years and winning athletes brought honor and respect to their homelands. The tradition of the Olympic Games faded over time until 1896, when they were brought back to …
What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs?
Av Megan Stine, Who HQ
Häftad, 2017
138 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Age of Dinosaurs began about 250 million years ago. In the beginning they were quite small but over time they evolved into the varied and fascinating creatures that captivate our imaginations today. What we know about dinosaurs is evolving, too! We've learned that some dinosaurs were good …
What Was the Holocaust?
Av Gail Herman, Who HQ
Häftad, 2018
169 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps - six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, whose rabid anti-Semitism led first to humiliating anti-Jewish laws, then to ghettos all over …
