Terrible but true: awful events in American history
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New York : Scholastic, 2016.
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Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
188 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, photographs ; 23 cm.
Rating:
Ages 11-14.
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Loveland Teen Nonfiction
973 Williams, D.
Description
"From America's first serial killers and deadly vampire-like diseases to haunted ghost ships and vicious river pirates, our nation's history is weirder than you could have ever imagined.: -- Back cover.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9780545909723 (pbk.), 0545909724 (pbk.)
Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (page 186).
Description
"From America's first serial killers and deadly vampire-like diseases to haunted ghost ships and vicious river pirates, our nation's history is weirder than you could have ever imagined.: -- Back cover.
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Ages 11-14.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Williams, D. (2016). Terrible but true: awful events in American history. First edition. New York, Scholastic.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Williams, Dinah. 2016. Terrible but True: Awful Events in American History. New York, Scholastic.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Williams, Dinah, Terrible but True: Awful Events in American History. New York, Scholastic, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Williams, Dinah. Terrible but True: Awful Events in American History. First edition. New York, Scholastic, 2016.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Pt. l: Revolutionary War and the New Nation (1764-1828) -- 1775 - The Disease-Ridden Prison Ships of the Revolutionary War -- 1775- Benedict Arnold's Long Deadly March -- 1776- Daniel Boone's Rotten Luck -- 1780- The Butcher of Buford's Massacre -- 1788- Corpse-Stealing Doctors Cause a Riot -- 1793- Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Plague -- 1797- The Ohio River's Most Vicious Pirate -- 1799- George Washington, Nearly Superhuman, Killed by a Sore Throat -- 1804- The Poison Pills of Lewis & Clark -- 1812- The Embarrassing Defeats at Lacolle -- 1814- Britain's Merciless Burning of Washington, D.C. Pt. ll: Western Expansion and Reform (1829-1859) -- 1835- Andrew Jackson: Too Mean to Die -- 1836- Victory or Death at the Alamo -- 1843: The Many Ways to be Killed on the Oregon Trail -- 1846-Cannabalism on the Trail to California -- 1851- Oliva Oatman's Kidnapping and Life with the Mohave -- 1857- The Mountain Meadows Massacre -- 1859- John Brown, Harper's Ferry, and the Failed Slave Revolt. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Pt. lll: Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1869) -- 1860- The Packed Pemberton Mill, A Recipe for Death -- 1863- Worked to Death Along the Transcontinental Railroad -- 1863- The Ghosts of Gettysburg -- 1863- The Ugly Civil War Draft Riots in New York City -- 1863- Starving Mothers Riot for Bread in New York City -- 1864- Andersonville Prison" "Can This Be Hell?" -- 1864- Lincoln Under Fire at Fort Stevens -- 1865- Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train -- 1865- More Than 1,500 POW's Perish on the Sultana -- 1865- The Stomach-Churning Filth of the Meatpacking Industry -- 1866- The Dismal Leper Colony in Paradise -- 1868- The Million Unvisited Graves on Hart Island -- Pt. lV: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era -- 1871- The Raging Fire That Incinerated Chicago -- 1874- The Plague of a Billion Locusts -- 1880- White House Doctors Kill a President -- 1884- Cholera and the Fear of Being Buried Alive -- 1888- The Great White Hurricane -- 1890- The Appalling World of Baby Farms -- 1891- Tuberculosis and the Last American vampire -- 1892- The Pinkertons' Deadly Bungling of the Homestead Strike -- 1893- The Living Exhibits at the World's Fair -- 1900- Hundreds Burn in the Hoboken Docks Fire -- 1900- Galveston, America's Dedliest Natural Disaster -- 1903- Six Hundred Die in Ten Minutes in "Fireproof" Theater -- 1903- Westinghouse and Edison's War of the Currents -- 1904- The Fiery End of the General Slocum -- 1906- San Francisco's Trifecta of Terror: Earthquake, Fire, and Plague -- 1907- Typhoid Mary, Serving Up Death One family at a Time -- 1908- The Shocking Truth of Child Labor -- 1910- The Short, Dark Life of a Coal Miner -- 1911- Jumping to Escape the Flames at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory -- 1912- A Bullet in His Chest, Teddy Roosevelt Keeps Talking. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Pt. V: The great War and the Jazz Age (1914-1936) -- 1915- Eight Hundred Drown Ten Feet from the Dock in the Chicago River -- 1918- One Million American Soldiers in One Battle -- 1918- Spanish Influenza Infects a Quarter of All Americans -- 1919- The Gooey Molasses Flood of Boston -- 1919- Charles Ponzi, the Godfather of Financial Schemes -- 1920- Radium, A Cure That Makes Your Jaw Fall Off -- 1921- Machine-Gunning Miners at the battle at Blair Mountain -- 1925- The Tri-State Tornado's Trail of Death -- 1927- The 23,000-Square-Mile Mississippi River Flood -- 1928- The Deadly Collapse of the St. Francis Dam -- 1935- Black Sunday, a Devastating Dust Storm -- 1936- Dr. Freeman's Lobotmobile. | |
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