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- The Raid On Harpers Ferry, October 16, 1859 A Brutal Skirmish Widens the Rift between North and South by Robert N. Webb
- The Burr-Hamilton Duel, July 11, 1804: A tragedy that Stunned the American Nation (A Focus book) by Ralph Knight
- The Battle of Fallen Timbers, August 20, 1794;: President Washington secures the Ohio Valley, (A Focus book) by John William Tebbel
- Bloody Kansas, 1854-65;: Guerrilla warfare delays peaceful American settlement, (A Focus book) by James P. Barry
- The bonus march on Washington, D.C., May-June, 1932;: American veterans demand the cash payments due them, (A Focus book) by Robert N. Webb
- The Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770 by Alice Dickinson
- The Burr-Hamilton duel, July 11, 1804; a tragedy that stunned the American nation by Ralph Knight
- The Cherokee Removal, 1838: An Entire Indian Nation Is Forced Out of Its Homeland (A Focus Book) by Glen Fleischmann
- Dred Scott Decision, March 6, 1857 Slavery and the Supreme Court's "Self-Inflicted Wound" by Frank Brown Latham
- FDR and the Supreme Court Fight, 1937: A President Tries to Reorganize the Federal Judiciary (A Focus book) by Frank Brown Latham
- The Great Awakening, 1720-1760;: Religious revival rouses Americans' sense of individual liberties (A Focus book) by Monroe Stearns
- The Haymarket Affair, Chicago, 1886: The Great Anarchist Riot and Trial (A Focus Book) by Corinne J. Naden
- King Philip's war, 1675-76;: The New England Indians fight the colonists (A Focus book) by Louise Rich
- The Louisiana Purchase, April 30, 1803: Thomas Jefferson Doubles the Area of the United States (A Focus Book) (A Focus b by James P. Barry
- The Mayflower compact, November 11, 1620;: The first democratic document in America, (A Focus book) by John E. Walsh
- Pontiac's war, 1763-1766,: The Indians' greatest uprising fails to stop westward expansion (A Focus book) by David Goodnough
- The Purchase of Alaska, March 30, 1867: A Bargain at Two Cents an Acre by Peter P. Sgroi
- The Rise and Fall of "Jim Crow," 1865-1964: The Negro's Long Struggle to Win "the Equal Protection of the Laws" by Frank Brown Latham
- The Stock Market Crash, 1929: Panic on Wall Street Ends the Jazz Age by Ray Eldon Hiebert
- The treason of Benedict Arnold, 1780;: An American general becomes his country's first traitor (A Focus book) by Robert Kraske
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- A series published by Franklin Watts, Inc. from 1968 to ca. 1975 for juvenile audience. The titles are mainly historical and cover topics from the Great Chicago Fire to Henry Ford to various encounters with American Indians. Not to be confused with another series of the same title produced by Taos Institute Publications. (English, Unclassified)
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