Life in a Mississippi River Town (Picture the Past)

This book describes what it was like to live along the Mississippi River between 1820 and 1870. At 2,348 miles (3,779 kilometers) in length, the Mississippi is the second longest river in the United States. The longest is the Missouri River, at 2466 miles (3,969 kilometers). At this time, the Mississippi River was the country’s main way to transport goods and people. This book focuses mainly on the river towns and cities of the central Mississippi River Valley. We have illustrated the book with drawings and paintings of people and places along the Mississippi River from this time period. We have also included artists’ ideas of how people lived in the 1800s.

Children's Books

Fischer, Laura

History

Heinemann/Raintree

Life in New Amsterdam (Picture the Past)

This book describes what life was like in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam from 1624 to 1664. A colony is a small town created by a country in a new or different land. New Amsterdam was first settled along the Hudson River Valley of what is now New York S

Life on the Trail of Tears (Picture the Past)

This book describes what life was like for the Native American people on the Trail of Tears during the winter of 1838 to 1839. The Trail of Tears was a journey the Native Americans made when they were forced out of their homeland by the United States government. The trail took the Native Americans west to land called Indian Territory. The tribes who walked the Trail of Tears were the Creek, Chicksaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole. This book focuses on the story of the Cherokee tribe. The book is illustrated with drawings and paintings from the time period and with artists’ ideas of how things looked on the trail.

This book tells about life in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1760 to 1773. Boston was one of the largest cities in the thirteen colonies of Great Britain. At first, the people who live in Boston copied the way things were done in Britain. But as time passed, they grew unhappy with the fact that they did not make their own laws. By the 1760s, Bostonians felt they were paying too many taxes to Britain. They felt they had no say in how their colony was being run. People began to hold meetings to complain about the taxes and to talk about independence. The Bostonians wanted to be free from Great Britain. We have illustrated the book with paintings and drawings from colonial times and with artists ideas of how things looked then.

Picture the Past

Isaacs, Sally Senzell

Gillis, Jennifer Blizin

This book describes what it was like to live along the Mississippi River between 1820 and 1870. At 2,348 miles (3,779 kilometers) in length, the Mississippi is the second longest river in the United States. The longest is the Missouri River, at 2466 miles (3,969 kilometers). At this time, the Mississippi River was the country’s main way to transport goods and people. This book focuses mainly on the river towns and cities of the central Mississippi River Valley. We have illustrated the book with drawings and paintings of people and places along the Mississippi River from this time period. We have also included artists’ ideas of how people lived in the 1800s.

Heinemann

This book describes what life was like in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam from 1624 to 1664. A colony is a small town created by a country in a new or different land. New Amsterdam was first settled along the Hudson River Valley of what is now New York State. Soon after the colony was set up, it became centered on what is today the island of Manhattan in New York City. The colony was named after the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, from where many of the colonists had come. We have illustrated the book with paintings and drawings from colonial times and with artists’ ideas of how things looked then.

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Life in a Mississippi River Town (Picture the Past)

Life in New Amsterdam (Picture the Past)

Life on the Trail of Tears (Picture the Past)

Picture the Past

Life in a Mississippi River Town (Picture the Past)

Life in New Amsterdam (Picture the Past)

Life on the Trail of Tears (Picture the Past)