People & Places

The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse, adapted for audio, chronicles the...

Inspired by the recent wave of activism led by young people fighting for racial justice, ...

Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's pr...

Journalist Rick Bowers has contributed to Time, the Washington Post, and USA Today, and ...

Sacagawea, the only Native American included in Lewis and Clark’s historic expediti...

A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literatu...

This authentic, loving celebration of gratitude & community -- written by a citizen of th...

The New York Times best-selling author of Jumanji and The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsb...

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Pu...

The True Story of Sitting Bull from multi-award-winning author Joseph Bruchac.Anxious to ...

The American boxing champ and vocal civil rights activist Muhammad Ali is the 27th hero i...

Some call it Freedom Day; some call it Emancipation Day; some call it Juneteenth. Learn m...

Learn how this heroic group of American Indian men created a secret, unbreakable code and...

Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, is the subject of the sixteenth ...

An alphabetical exploration of the people, geography, animals, plants, history, and cultu...

Visit the Mount Rushmore State! Learn about South Dakota's history, geography, weather, p...

Take a trip to “The Land Down Under” and discover all of the unusual wildlife...

Your Story Hour proudly presents a new set of exciting, dramatized stories. Listen as Des...

In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black ...

In this lively picture book, children discover a world of shapes all around them: rectang...

Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Okla...

Under Egypt's wind-swept sands, mummies and breathtaking treasure await those savvy and d...

The recipient of a Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, Andrea Davis Pinkney is th...

It's up, up, and away with the Tuskegee Airmen, a heroic group of African American milita...

In 1994, twenty-five-year-old Yuyi Morales traveled from her home in Yelapa, Mexico, to t...

Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration o...

Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.Even ...

Tip your hat to fashion designer and civil rights icon Mae Reeves in this picture book bi...

Barbed Wire Baseball tells the awe-inspiring tale of Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura,...

En mi corazón quiero saberQue cuando terminen mis díasEstados UnidosEstados...

Based on the song that President Joe Biden quoted in his inaugural address, this picture ...

In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Sh...

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her debut book&mdas...

Based on Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the stor...

For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as hostesses of the White House...

When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, an...

A poetic and inspiring tribute to the beauty and wonder of America's history, landscape, ...

For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“In rhyming couplets, Cortez leads readers on ...

In her debut picture book, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexand...

Discover how a young girl who loved to read and write became a voting rights activist, a ...

The Capitol Building is a busy place in Washington, D.C.! Government leaders meet there t...

What happens at a police station? From booking suspects to answering 9-1-1 calls, the pol...

In spring, people plant seeds in gardens. Students have their last weeks of school. See h...

Where do the players go when they’re not on the field? And where do the vendors coo...

Where do the police keep their weapons? And where do the criminals go once they’re ...

Where do the doctor’s tools get cleaned? And where do they put patients who are dan...

Where does all the trash at the mall go? And where do they keep all the stuff for the sto...

The Bermuda Triangle. A deadly swamp. Scorching deserts. Danger lurks all over the world....