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History: Hidden Figures and Events: United States

United States History

Middle Grade Nonfiction

Deadly aim : the Civil War story of Michigan's Anishinaabe sharpshooters
Hip-hop U.S. history
Twelve Days in May : Freedom Ride 1961
Women's right to vote
This is our Constitution : discover America with a Gold Star father
Fault lines in the constitution : the framers, their fights, and the flaws that affect us today
Strong voices : fifteen American speeches worth knowing
North America : a fold-out graphic history
Reaching for the Moon : the autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
Born to fly : the first women's air race across America
The poison eaters : fighting danger and fraud in our food and drugs
Bubonic panic : when plague invaded America
Spooked! : how a radio broadcast and the war of the worlds sparked the 1938 invasion of America
Disaster strikes! : the most dangerous space missions of all time
American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South
Loving vs. Virginia: A documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case

Middle Grade Fiction

Indian No More
Ancestor Approved
Front Desk
New Kid
Troublemaker
Parachute kids
The door of no return

Young Adult Nonfiction

The burning : Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Dark sky rising : Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow
America redux : visual stories from our dynamic history
We are your children too : Black students, White supremacists, and the battle for America's schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia
More than a dream : the radical march on Washington for jobs and freedom
The Monkey Trial : John Scopes and the battle over teaching evolution
Worm : a Cuban American odyssey
The Stonewall Riots : coming out in the streets
Black birds in the sky : the story and legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people
The rise and fall of Charles Lindbergh
Blood and germs : the Civil War battle against wounds and disease
Turning 15 on the road to freedom : my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
One person, no vote : how not all voters are treated equally
Stolen Justice
Unpunished murder : massacre at Colfax and the quest for justice

Young Adult Fiction

Firekeeper's daughter
Piecing me together
Poet X
The Hate You GIve
Long way down
We Deserve Monuments