Founding fathers: the shaping of America tells the story of six formidable Americans George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and how they persevered for 50 years of battle and bar-knucle government to forge a nation. COMES with Facsimile ...
A practical guide for teachers, offering a host of ways to help all their students to improve their writing skills. It also offers advice on improving skills and confidence, and getting students excited about writing - not just in literacy or English, but across the curriculum.
In January 1848, John Augustus Sutter, "the first American millionaire," was ruined by one blow of a pickaxe. That blow revealed gold in one of the streams in Sutter's Californian estate, triggering the Gold Rush that brought hordes of greedy miners from every corner of the world to Sutter's vast domain. ...
