Mary Virginia Fox's Books

Explore North America with large full-color photographs and maps. Learn about the weather, wild animals, and where people live in North America. Find out if polar bears live in North America. Discover many fascinating facts and statistics about this continent. This book features a glossary and an index.

Learn about the land, weather, and people of South America.

Briefly describes the landscape, weather, plants, animals, and famous attractions of the continent of Australia.

This series offers a "visitor's guide" for learners, helping them to understand what it is like to live, go to school, and take part in traditional celebrations in other countries. The books feature fact files, maps, photos, and lists of basic words in each language. The enw edition presents an engaging layout, new photography, and updated facts and statistics.

In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America’s first families. J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated its daily life—at the request of the president and his family. He directed state functions; planned parties, weddings and funerals, gardens and playgrounds, and extensive renovations; and, with a large staff, supervised every activity in the presidential home. For twenty-eight years, first as assistant to the chief usher, then as chief usher, he witnessed national crises and triumphs, and interacted daily with six consecutive presidents and first ladies, as well as their parents, children and grandchildren, and houseguests—including friends, relatives, and heads of state. J. B. West, whom Jackie Kennedy called “one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met,” provides an absorbing, one-of-a-kind history of life among the first ladies. Alive with anecdotes ranging from Eleanor Roosevelt’s fascinating political strategies to Jackie Kennedy’s tragic loss and the personal struggles of Pat Nixon, Upstairs at the White House is a rich account of a slice of American history that usually remains behind closed doors.

Colombia is a Heinemann title.

From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine.

Presents the history of the holiday named for civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., celebrated on the third Monday of every January.

A biography of Henrietta Chamberlain King, who helped build one of the world's largest cattle empires, the King Ranch in Texas.

The Shenandoah Valley conjures up a beautiful landscape and a resonant Civil War history. This guide delivers the best experiences in the area, peak to peak, from wonderful mountain flowers and streams, to rolling farmlands and white clapboard chapels to tales of invention, scholarship, and military encounters. Maps. Photos.

Describes the geography, history, people, and culture of Papua New Guinea.

The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health and medicine, science and technology, exploration, life on the Western frontier, family life, slave life, Native American life, women, and more than a hundred influential individuals.

An introduction to the land, culture, and people of Colombia.

The War for a Nation provides a brief introduction to the American Civil War from the perspective of military personnel and civilians who participated in the conflict. Susan-Mary Grant brings the war, its many battles, and those who fought them – male and female, black and white – to the center of a riveting narrative that is accessible to general readers and students of American history. The War for a Nation explains, in a clear narrative structure, the war's origins, its battles, the expansion of the Union, the struggle for emancipation, and the following saga of Reconstruction. By drawing its examples from primary source documents, first-hand accounts, and scholarly research, The War for a Nation introduces readers to the human-interest aspects as well as the historiographical debates surrounding what was the most destructive war ever fought on American soil.

An introduction to the science of rocketry from the time of the earliest Chinese rockets in A.D. 1231 to the present.

Discusses the geography, history, people, and culture of Tunisia, a land of contrasts.

Presents examples of women who helped to shape the Western frontier in such diverse roles as schoolteacher, missionary, justice of the peace, and homesteader.

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