Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909

By Deborah Hopkinson

Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the s...

Shutting out the sky

By Deborah Hopkinson

Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at...

Fannie in the Kitchen

By Deborah Hopkinson

Up Before Daybreak

By Deborah Hopkinson

Apples to Oregon

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Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906

By Deborah Hopkinson

“I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.”Gran’s gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Qu...

Who Was Charles Darwin?

By Deborah Hopkinson

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible seasickn...

Up Before Daybreak

By Deborah Hopkinson

John Adams speaks for freedom

By Deborah Hopkinson

John Adams didn't enjoy traveling. He much preferred to stay home with his wife and children. But John Adams also had a dream: He wanted to see the thirteen colonies free from English rule. He want...

Dive

By Deborah Hopkinson

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US entered World War II in December 1941 with only 44 Naval submarines -- many of them dating from the 1920s. With the Pacific battleship fleet decimated a...