Sharon Sigmond Shebar Books
Pennsylvania
Surveys the history, geography, and economy of Pennsylvania and describes its important cities, government, and people.
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Whaling for glory!
Offers a brief history of whaling and describes the day-to-day activities on board a typical 19th-century whaling ship.
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The Cardiff Giant
Briefly discusses the Cardiff Giant hoax in which people of upstate New York were fooled into believing that the petrified form of a giant human being had been uncovered from the ground on October...
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The Bell witch
Traces the history of "Old Kate," the ghost or evil spirit that haunted the Bell family of Tennessee between 1817 and 1820.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
A biography of the thirty-second President, the only one to be elected to a fourth term, who began the New Deal to counteract the effects of the Depression.
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