The Road to War: Civil WarA Nation Divided: The Story of Samuel Whitaker Samuel Whitaker tightened his wool coat against the crisp autumn...

Enhancing Student Learning Through Cross-Curricular Connections in Expansion West History The Power of Cross-Curricular Learning...

The Life of Chief American Horse: A Story of Resistance and Diplomacy A Warrior’s Beginnings (1830s–1850s) Under the vast, open skies of...

A Race for a Dream: The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 (Historical Fiction) The morning light filtered through the thin curtains of the...

Early Settlers in California Before 1850 California's history of human settlement predates European arrival by thousands of years....

The Deep West – Boomtown and Cities near the Southern Border The Life of Kit Carson: A Journey Through the American Frontier In the wild,...

The Kansas Frontier Colonel Henry Leavenworth’s Mission: Bring Stability to the Western Edge The year was 1827, and the Missouri River...

Zachary Taylor: The Reluctant Hero Who Became a President In the humid Kentucky summer of 1784, a child was born to Richard and Sarah...

The Mormon Pioneers and Other Religious Pioneers A Boy’s Sacrifice to Save Others The message had come to Salt Lake City like a whisper...

The Golden Discovery: Sutter's Mill and the Spark of a Nation It was a crisp January morning in 1848 when James Marshall, a carpenter,...