A Child's History of the World, chapters 88 - 90
Topics and the books we used (or may use at another time):
- Philippines Independence
- All About the Philippines by Gidget Roceles Jimenez -- pages 8 and 9
- Jackie Robinson
- Who Was Jackie Robinson? by Gail Herman
- Jackie Robinson by Josh Gregory -- this is in the A True Book series; we didn't read it because the book in the Who Was...? series covered his life thoroughly.
- The Roswell Incident
- UFOs by Judith Herbst -- only read the section about the Roswell Incident
- The CIA
- The CIA by Brendan January -- read about why the CIA was started
- Truman Doctrine
- Harry S. Truman by Jim Hardgrove -- we read only that pages about the Truman Doctrine
- Invention of the Polaroid Camera
- Edwin Land: Photographic Pioneer -- actually read most of this book. After he invents the Polaroid camera, he goes on to other things, but we stopped there.
- Truman/Dewey Election Upset
- Harry S. Truman by Heidi M.D. Elston -- pages 24 and 25
- Cold War
- The Alger Hiss Trial by Doreen Rappaport -- saving this for high school
- Candy Bomber by Michael O. Tunnell -- also for high school
- Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Theis Raaven -- very good picture book story.
- The Berlin Airlift by Michael Burgan -- did not read all of this. It seemed we were repeating ourselves.
- A Night Divided by Jennifer a. Nielsen -- I read this, it is scary in some places and sad in others, but is very good. Saving it for high school.
- Korean War
- The Korean War: An Interactive Modern History Adventure by Michael Burgan -- very good
- Civil Rights Movement
- Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights by Belinda Rochelle -- I highly recommend this book. We did not get all of it read, so we are continuing it in Set 4.
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka by Sharon J. Wilson -- covered in Witnesses to Freedom, so didn't read this book
- Peanuts Comic Strip
- Charles Schulz by Jim Whiting
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- A Picture Book of Dwight David Eisenhower by David A. Adler
- Dwight D. Eisenhower by Mike Venezia
- Polio
- Jonas Salk: Creator of the Polio Vaccine by Salvatore Tocci -- maybe in high school
- Close to Home: A Story of the Polio Epicemic by Lydia Weaver -- good book. This is in the Once Upon America series.
- McDonald's
- Brands we Know: McDonald's by Sara Green -- this book has more about the McDonalds brothers.
- Ray Kroc: McDonald's Restaurants Builder by Joanne Mattern
- First Kidney Transplant
- Joseph E. Murray and the Story of the First Human Kidney Transplant by Joanne Mattern -- we read snippets from this book
- Interstate Highways
- Just Fine the Way They Are by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge -- picture book about the growth from dirt roads to interstate highways in the U.S.
