What Was Pearl Harbor?
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...
View full detailsA 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...
View full detailsIn 1978, Sally Ride, a PhD candidate at Standford University, responded to a newspaper ad to join the US astronaut program. She was accepted and be...
View full detailsMore than two thousand years ago, with his land under constant attack from nomads, the First Emperor of China came up with a simple solution: build...
View full detailsIt was world-famous sculptor Gutzon Borglum's dream to carve sixty-foot-high likenesses of four presidents on a granite cliff in South Dakota. Does...
View full detailsIn 1876, France decided to give the United States a very big and very special present--the Statue of Liberty. The gift was to commemorate the 100th...
View full detailsOver a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went th...
View full detailsNational Geographic Kids First Big Book of the Ocean is an adorable animal reference that includes the sea's high-interest animals, such as dolphin...
View full detailsWhile other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop...
View full detailsDid you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence? It's true. The shy Virginia statesman refus...
View full detailsAmelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1935, she also became th...
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