Growing Up in Coal Country

By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Describes what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Silver at night

By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Massimino emigrates from Italy to work in the coal mines of turn-of-the-century America and slowly saves enough silver to pay the passage of his fiancée.

Silver at night

By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Massimino emigrates from Italy to work in the coal mines of turn-of-the-century America and slowly saves enough silver to pay the passage of his fiancée.

Jugend im Nationalsozialismus

By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

How Women Won the Vote

By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Hitler Youth

By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, thanks largely to the efforts of the Hitler Youth, whose organized propaganda marches throughout Germany helped the Nazi Party...

The Boy Who Dared

By Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Just as the Nazis are rising to power, Helmuth Hübener, a German schoolboy, is caught up in all the swashbuckling bravado of his time. The handsome stormtrooper uniforms, the shiny jackboots a...