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The Bill of Rights in Translation: What It Really Means
3-6 ┊ 2195 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2195 words, 18 minutes audio time. How long is four score and seven years? Just what are unalienable rights? These translations make important historical documents meaningf…- 26
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The Declaration of Independence in Translation: What It Really Means
3-6 ┊ 2559 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2559 words, 21 minutes audio time. How long is four score and seven years? Just what are unalienable rights? These translations make important historical documents meaningf…- 24
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The Dollar Bill in Translation: What It Really Means
3-6 ┊ 2021 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2021 words, 17 minutes audio time. "Novus ordo seclorum" sounds like something from a magic spell, doesn't it? So why is it on the back of the dollar bill? H…- 61
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The Gettysburg Address in Translation: What It Really Means
3-6 ┊ 2042 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2042 words, 16 minutes audio time. How long is four score and seven years? Just what are unalienable rights? These translations make important historical documents meaningf…- 6
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The Star Spangled Banner in Translation: What It Really Means
3-6 ┊ 2117 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2117 words, 17 minutes audio time. How long is four score and seven years? Just what are unalienable rights? These translations make important historical documents meaningf…- 101
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The Creation of the U.S. Constitution
3-9 ┊ 2529 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 2529 words, 23 minutes audio time. Tells the story of the debates, disagreements, and compromises that led to the formation of the U.S. Constitution during the Constitution…- 14
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition
3-9 ┊ 2041 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 2041 words, 15 minutes audio time. Explains the dramatic story of Lewis and Clark's exploration of the unmapped American west. Written in graphic-novel format. READ- 22
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The Boston Tea Party
3-9 ┊ 1339 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 1339 words, 11 minutes audio time. Tells the events of the Boston Tea Party, one of the acts by American Patriots that led to the American Revolution. Written in graphic-no…- 22
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
3-9 ┊ 1240 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 1240 words, 10 minutes audio time. Tells the story of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Written in graphic-novel format. READ- 20
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The Salem Witch Trials
3-9 ┊ 1572 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 1572 words, 14 minutes audio time. Tells the story of the 1692 witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Written in graphic-novel format. READ- 21
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The Sinking of the Titanic
3-9 ┊ 1371 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 1371 words, 12 minutes audio time. Tells the story of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Written in graphic-novel format. READ- 17
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Cesar Chavez: Fighting for Farmworkers
3-9 ┊ 2227 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 2227 words, 20 minutes audio time. A biography telling the life of labor leader Cesar Chavez and the boycotts that he led to gain fair working conditions for farmworkers. W…- 14
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women’s Rights Pioneer
3-9 ┊ 1953 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 1953 words, 15 minutes audio time. A biography telling the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a staunch supporter of women's rights including women's right to vote. …- 19
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Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World
3-9 ┊ 1994 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 1994 words, 15 minutes audio time. A biography describing the childhood, private life, and years of public service of the popular First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. Written in …- 49
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Thomas Jefferson: Great American
3-9 ┊ 2240 words ┊ ◄)) 3-9, 2240 words, 18 minutes audio time. Tells the life story of President Thomas Jefferson, the individual who authored the Declaration of Independence. Written in graphic-novel…- 31
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The Dreadful, Smelly Colonies: The Disgusting Details about Life in Colonial America
3-6 ┊ 2370 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2370 words, 18 minutes audio time. From moldy food and dirt covered clothes to poisonous pests and extreme weather, American colonists had a dreadful time in the New World.…- 11
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The Terrible, Awful Civil War: The Disgusting Details about Life During America’s Bloodiest War
3-6 ┊ 2504 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2504 words, 19 minutes audio time. From crawling lice and deadly diseases to bloody battles and crammed prison camps, life was truly terrible for Union and Confederate sold…- 24
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The Horrible, Miserable Middle Ages: The Disgusting Details about Life During Medieval Times
3-6 ┊ 2352 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2352 words, 17 minutes audio time. From leftover trenchers and stinky chamber pots to barber surgeons and the black plague, life could be really miserable for people during…- 17
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The Crude, Unpleasant Age of Pirates: The Disgusting Details about the Life of Pirates
3-6 ┊ 2588 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2588 words, 19 minutes audio time. From cramped quarters and salty, rotten food to bloody battles and deadly storms at sea, life aboard a pirate ship was downright unpleasa…- 25
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The Bloody, Rotten Roman Empire: The Disgusting Details about Life in Ancient Rome
3-6 ┊ 2754 words ┊ ◄)) 3-6, 2754 words, 20 minutes audio time. From garbage-filled streets and spoiled food to bloody gladiator fights and deadly punishments, daily life in Rome was really rotten. Get…- 143
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The First American Flag
1-3 ┊ 648 words ┊ ◄)) 1-3, 648 words, 6 minutes audio time. The legend says that Betsy Ross sewed the first U.S. flag in 1776. But the facts say someone else did. Who was it? And how has the flag chan…- 18
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The Boston Tea Party
1-3 ┊ 523 words ┊ ◄)) 1-3, 523 words, 5 minutes audio time. Boston Harbor is full of British tea! But the Colonists aren’t drinking it. They aren’t having a party for fun. They’re sending an angry mes…- 35
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The First Independence Day Celebration
1-3 ┊ 486 words ┊ ◄)) 1-3, 486 words, 5 minutes audio time. In the United States, the Fourth of July means picnics, parades, and fireworks. But it wasn’t always so. The First Independence Day happened…- 39
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President George Washington
1-3 ┊ 599 words ┊ ◄)) 1-3, 599 words, 5 minutes audio time. He was a quiet landowner from Virginia. So how did George Washington become the first U.S. president? How did he earn a place in the hearts …- 15
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