A nonfiction author explores his personal evolution as an author, from his early inspirations to his life as a full-time writer, offering his own firsthand experiences during the Depression, World War II, and other historic eras.
These essays deal both with reading and writing non-fiction, and with teaching and learning history. Throughout the book, Meltzer makes a case for the value of good writing and the importance and utility of literacy instruction using non-fiction.
How We Hunt And Gather It, How We Grow And Eat It, How We Buy And Sell It, How We Preserve And Waste It, And How Some Have Too Much And Others Have Too Little Of It
How We Hunt And Gather It, How We Grow And Eat It, How We Buy And Sell It, How We Preserve And Waste It, And How Some Have Too Much And Others Have Too Little Of It
Horses have been, among other things, a cowboy’s best friend, a knight’s trusty ally, a bettor's race track dream, and the inspiration for countless artists, writers, and storytellers. This engaging account explores how the rich partnership between humans and horses has helped to shape more than five thousand years of history. 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 1995 (NY Public Library)
A landmark work on one of the most important but least-written-about Indian wars, Hunted Like a Wolf chronicles the Second Seminole War. From 1835 to 1842, Washington, D.C. waged a violent war upon the Seminoles and their allies in Florida, using any measure, including treachery and fraud, to drive them from their lands. Respected historian Milton Meltzer explores the choices facing the Seminoles as whites gradually encroached on their land, as well as the sacrifices they made in order to resist. The Second Seminole War was a war over slavery as well as territory, for living among the Seminoles were black men and women—some runaway slaves, some free people—willing to fight alongside their Indian brothers for the territory they considered their own. A ragged, starving handful of guerrillas, the Seminoles and blacks managed to resist an invading American army ten times their number, defying the skill of six eminent generals. The war was not only the longest of the Indians wars but also the costliest in resources and human life. In the story of the Seminole War, we can see at work all the forces of America's terrible racist history, the consequences of which we are only beginning to understand.
Historian, scholar, and award-winning author Milton Meltzer outlines the struggle of African Americans for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," starting with the landing of the first slave ships on colonial shores. How did over 300 years of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow laws come to an end in the civil rights movement of the 1960s? What was achieved, and what are the problems still facing us today?
Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.
Skillfully blending historical fact and fast-paced fiction, Meltzer delivers a dramatic, insightful novel set during the Great Depression, and brings alive a period when families desperately tried to cope as hopelessness gripped the nation. Includes an Authors Note.
Six million-- a number impossible to visualize. Six million Jews were killed in Europe between the years 1933 and 1945. What can that number mean to us today? We can that number mean to us today? We are told never to forget the Holocaust, but how can we remember something so incomprehensible? We can think, not of the numbers, the statistics, but of the people. For the families torn apart, watching mothers, fathers, children disappear or be slaughtered, the numbers were agonizingly comprehensible. One. Two. Three. Often more. Here are the stories of thode people, recorded in letters and diaries, and in the memories of those who survived. Seen through their eyes, the horror becomes real. We cannot deny it--and we can never forget. ‘Based on diaries, letters, songs, and history books, a moving account of Jewish suffering in Nazi Germany before and during World War II.’ —Best Books for Young Adults Committee (ALA). ‘A noted historian writes on a subject ignored or glossed over in most texts. . . . Now that youngsters are acquainted with the horrors of slavery, they are more prepared to consider the questions the Holocaust raises for us today.’ —Language Arts. ‘[An] extraordinarily fine and moving book.’ —NYT. Notable Children's Books of 1976 (ALA) Best of the Best Books (YA) 1970–1983 (ALA) 1976 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction Best Books of 1976 (SLJ) Outstanding Children's Books of 1976 (NYT) Notable 1976 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) 1977 Jane Addams Award Nominee, 1977 National Book Award for Children's Literature IBBY International Year of the Child Special Hans Christian Andersen Honors List Children's Books of 1976 (Library of Congress) 1976 Sidney Taylor Book Award (Association of Jewish Libraries)
Profiles the solitary student of Ralph Waldo Emerson who was well-known as a naturalist in his own time but who became posthumously famous for his writings.
Describes the history and practice of slavery, particularly the African slave trade--its origins, growth, and demise from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Describes the history, changing technologies, and current challenges of detective work; and explains how detectives train, gather and analyze evidence, and face risks.
Originally published in 1983 as "The Terrorists, The Day the Sky Fell" is updated with new chapters and a new Introduction. Meltzer searches for answers as he puts terrorism and its practitioners into historical context. Meltzer shows that terrorism is as old as humankind and that it has been the tool of innumerable ideologies, religions, and ethnic groups all over the world.
Presents the life and accomplishments of the American author known for his collection of powerful novels about the lives of working people struggling to survive in the early 1900s, and especially for "The Grapes of Wrath.
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