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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART ONE - “¡Tierra!”: When Two Worlds Met
Diego Bermúdez: Sailing into the Unknown
WHAT HAPPENED TO DIEGO BERMÚDEZ?
The Tainos: Discovering Columbus
PART TWO - Strangers in Paradise: The British Colonies
Pocahontas: Peacemaker, Cartwheeler, Princess
WHAT HAPPENED TO POCAHONTAS?
Tom Savage: Living Two Lives
WHAT HAPPENED TO TOM SAVAGE?
Orphans and Tobacco Brides: Feeding England’s Newest Habit
Saints and Strangers: Bound by Hope
WHAT HAPPENED TO SOME OF THE YOUNG PILGRIMS?
Betty Parris and Abigail Williams: Bewitched or Bored?
WHAT HAPPENED TO BETTY PARRIS AND ABIGAIL WILLIAMS?
Eunice Williams: Captive
WHAT HAPPENED TO EUNICE WILLIAMS?
Eliza Lucas: Indigo Planter
WHAT HAPPENED TO ELIZA LUCAS?
Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapped into Slavery
WHAT HAPPENED TO OLAUDAH EQUIANO?
Phillis Wheatley: The Impossible Poet
WHAT HAPPENED TO PHILLIS WHEATLEY?
PART THREE - Breaking Away: The American Revolution
Anna Green Winslow and Charity Clark: Spinning for Liberty
WHAT HAPPENED TO ANNA GREEN WINSLOW?
Christopher Seider and Samuel Maverick: Martyrs of the Revolution
Joseph Plumb Martin: “And Now I Was a Soldier”
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOSEPH PLUMB MARTIN?
John Quincy Adams: Translating for the Revolution
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS?
Sybil Ludington: Outdistancing Paul Revere
WHAT HAPPENED TO SYBIL LUDINGTON?
Mary Redmond, John Darragh, and Dicey Langston: Spies
WHAT HAPPENED TO DICEY LANGSTON?
James Forten: Saved by a Game of Marbles
WHAT HAPPENED TO JAMES FORTEN?
Private Deborah Sampson: Alias Robert Shirtliffe
WHAT HAPPENED TO DEBORAH SAMPSON?
PART FOUR - Learning to Be a Nation
Smith Wilkinson: The Same Thing Over and Over
WHAT HAPPENED TO SMITH WILKINSON?
Rebecca and Abigail Bates: An Army of Two
WHAT HAPPENED TO REBECCA AND ABIGAIL BATES?
Caroline Pickersgill: Stitching the Star-Spangled Banner
WHAT HAPPENED TO CAROLINE PICKERSGILL?
Lucy Larcom and Harriet Hanson: Voices of the Mills
WHAT HAPPENED TO LUCY LARCOM AND HARRIET HANSON?
Anyokah: Teaching Leaves to Talk
WHAT HAPPENED TO ANYOKAH?
Manjiro: Bringing America to Japan
WHAT HAPPENED TO MANJIRO?
George Fred Tilton: “Why, Whaling I Suppose”
WHAT HAPPENED TO GEORGE FRED TILTON?
Frederick Douglass: Taking On a Tyrant
WHAT HAPPENED TO FREDERICK DOUGLASS?
Allen Jay: Underground Railroad Conductor
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALLEN JAY?
Maria Weems: Escape to Canada
WHAT HAPPENED TO MARIA WEEMS?
PART FIVE - One Nation or Two? The Civil War
Elisha Stockwell: “Such a Mess As I Was In”
WHAT HAPPENED TO ELISHA STOCKWELL?
Johnny Clem: Poster Boy of the North
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHNNY CLEM?
Billy Bates and Dick King: Escape from Andersonville
WHAT HAPPENED TO BILLY BATES AND DICK KING?
Susie King Taylor: At the Heart of the Sea Islands
WHAT HAPPENED TO SUSIE KING TAYLOR?
Carrie Berry: “They Came Burning
WHAT HAPPENED TO CARRIE BERRY?
Vinnie Ream: “I … Begged Mr. Lincoln Not to Allow Me to Disturb Him”
WHAT HAPPENED TO VINNIE REAM?
PART SIX - Elbow Room: The West
Sacagawea: “She Inspired Us All”
WHAT HAPPENED TO SACAGAWEA?
Enrique Esparza: Inside the Alamo
WHAT HAPPENED TO ENRIQUE ESPARZA?
Mary Goble: Walking to Zion
WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY GOBLE?
William Cody: Racing the Wind
WHAT HAPPENED TO BILL CODY?
Ng Poon Chew and Lee Chew: Gold Mountain Boys
WHAT HAPPENED TO NG POON CHEW AND LEE CHEW?
Teddy Blue Abbott: Cowpuncher
WHAT HAPPENED TO TEDDY ABBOTT?
Chuka: “I Did Not Want My Shirt Taken from My Back”
WHAT HAPPENED TO CHUKA?
PART SEVEN - Shifting Gears in a New Century
Gene Schermerhorn: A New City Every Day
WHAT HAPPENED TO GENE SCHERMERHORN?
Rose Cohen: First Day in a Sweatshop
WHAT HAPPENED TO ROSE COHEN?
Joseph Miliauskas: Breaker Boy
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOSEPH MILIAUSKAS?
Jennie Curtis: Strike Leader
WHAT HAPPENED TO JENNIE CURTIS?
Kid Blink and the Newsies: Bringing Down Goliaths
John Thayer: Becoming a Man Aboard the Titanic
WHAT HAPPENED TO MILTON LONG AND JOHN THAYER?
Edna Purtell: Suffragist
WHAT HAPPENED TO EDNA PURTELL?
Charles Denby: Bound North
WHAT HAPPENED TO CHARLES DENBY?
Jackie Cooper: “Lights, Action, Cry!”
WHAT HAPPENED TO JACKIE COOPER?
PART EIGHT - Hard Times: Wars, Depression, and Dust
Margaret Davidson: War on the Home Front
WHAT HAPPENED TO MARGARET DAVIDSON?
Harley Holladay: Black Sunday
WHAT HAPPENED TO HARLEY HOLLADAY?
Peggy Eaton: Ridin’ the Rails
WHAT HAPPENED TO PEGGY EATON?
Calvin Graham: Too Young to Be a Hero?
WHAT HAPPENED TO CALVIN GRAHAM?
Terry Grimmesey: “What Had We Done?”
WHAT HAPPENED TO TERRY GRIMMESEY?
Joe Nuxhall and Anna Meyer: A Wartime Chance to Play Ball
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOE NUXHALL AND ANNA MEYER?
PART NINE - Times That Kept a-Changin’
Claudette Colvin: The First to Keep Her Seat
WHAT HAPPENED TO CLAUDETTE COLVIN?
Elizabeth Eckford: Facing a Mob on the First Day of School
WHAT HAPPENED TO ELIZABETH ECKFORD?
Carolyn McKinstry: On the Firing Line
WHAT HAPPENED TO CAROLYN McKINSTRY?
John Tinker: Tinker v. Des Moines
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHN TINKER?
Jessica Govea: Education of a Union Organizer
WHAT HAPPENED TO JESSICA GOVEA?
Bill Gates: Another Revolution
WHAT HAPPENED TO BILL GATES?
Arn Chorn: Starting All Over
WHAT HAPPENED TO ARN CHORN?
Judi Warren and the Warsaw Tigers: Taking Center Stage
WHAT HAPPENED TO JUDI WARREN?
Ryan White: Going to School with AIDS
WHAT HAPPENED TO RYAN WHITE?
Kory Johnson: An Environmentalist for Life
WHAT HAPPENED TO KORY JOHNSON?
Linking Up in the Twenty-first Century
Acknowledgments
Sources
Index
Picture Credits
Copyright Page
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