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	Discovery Series, K-2nd grades Readiness Series, 2nd-5th grades Advanced Series, 6th-12th grades Desk maps & programs Continents Physical Political State maps Physical Political Thematic Atlases Introductory History USA World History maps & programs History eMaps Map Program Transparencies US History World Specialty maps & charts Primary sources & references Learn through games Misc. material Interactive whiteboards Hardware eMap Introduction Online maps


	Complete programs include: 8 booklets, a 4-page teacher guide and a set of 35, 12-page student guides. The 4-page teacher’s guide gives you suggestions for using these booklets and the student guides as a complete unit on each program era. The 12-page student guides contain two brief essays interpreting stories from two sharply contrasting points of view. Each essay deals with the broad sweep of this period, focusing on the topics in the eight Debating the Documents booklets included with each era.

	Debating the Documents: Complete Divided Nation Program Complete era program includes: The Missouri Compromise Calhoun vs. the Abolitionists The War with Mexico Uncle Tom’s Cabin Bleeding Kansas: A Failure to Compromise Was John Brown a Hero? The Emancipation Proclamation Blue or Gray: Why Men Fought in the Civil War	Debating the Documents: Complete Colonial America Program Complete era program includes: Banished: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Crisis What Did the Great Awakening Awaken? The Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Colonial America The Pilgrims: Image and Reality Ben Franklin: A New American Identity? Loyalists and Patriots “We Hold These Truths:” The Meaning of the Declaration Slavery and Virginia’s Enlightened Aristocracy


	Debating the Documents: Complete Gilded Age Program Complete era program includes: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Rockefeller: Monster Monopolist or Marketplace Hero? Arrival: The Immigrant and the City The Haymarket Square Riot Why Reconstruction Failed Democracy and the Railroads: Friends or Foes? The West: Paradise or Paradise Lost? Why Fight for Cuba? Bryans Cross of Gold	Debating the Documents: Complete Early Republic Program Complete era program includes: The “Grand Compromise” and the Making of the Constitution John Marshall’s Court “A Knack at Contriving” — Why Americans Invented Henry Clay’s American System The Monroe Doctrine: Was it Necessary? The Lowell Experience Jackson and the Indians Revivalists and Utopians: Reform in Antebellum America



Complete Resource Package: The Revolutionary Age Reproducible lessons and activities focus on primary sources detailing the American Revolution, the creation of the Constitution and the workings of a republic of checks and balances. Visual and written primary sources are provided on 80 overhead transparencies. Debating the Documents Sets: Benjamin Franklin: A New American Identity? Loyalists and Patriots We Hold These Truths: The Meaning of the Declaration The Grand Compromise and the Making of the Constitution John Marshalls Court The Way We Saw It Sets: Colonial America in the 18th Century The American Revolution A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Founding of Americas Federal Union Editorial Cartoons Set: Our Divided Government: The Three Branches of Government in Cartoons



	World History: Ancient Times–1500 This program uses visual and written primary sources sequentially to fit into a typical early world history class. Grades 8-12. The entire program consists of: Set of 10 Student Workbooks One Teacher’s Manual A Binder of 14 MindSparks® Sets, titles as follow: Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt Ancient China Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Ancient India The Rise of Islam Nomads of the Steppes Christendom: After Rome’s Fall Christendom: The High Middle Ages Civilizations of Africa and the Americas India: The Mauryas to the Mughal Empire China: From Han to the Manchus Clan, Emperor, Shogun: Japan in the Middle Ages	World History: 1500–the Present This program uses visual and written primary sources sequentially to fit into a typical modern world history class. Grades 8-12. The entire program consists of: Set of 10 Student Workbooks One Teacher’s Manual A Binder of 14 MindSparks® Sets, titles as follow: The European Renaissance Martin Luther and the Reformation The Age of Exploration Science, Technology and the Enlightenment The French Revolution Islam and the West in the Age of the Ottomans The Global Impact of the Industrial Revolution The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century China and Japan in the Modern Age The Great War: 1914–1918 Russia’s Revolution and the World The Age of the Totalitarians The Rise of the Modern Middle East The End of the Imperial Age


	U.S. History: 1600–1865 This program uses visual and written primary sources sequentially to fit into a typical early U.S. history class. Grades 8-12. The entire program consists of: Set of 10 Student Workbooks One Teacher’s Manual A Binder of 14 MindSparks® Sets, titles as follow: Daily Life in Colonial America The Witches of Salem Colonial America in the 18th Century The American Revolution “A Republic, if You Can Keep It:” The Founding of America’s Federal Union The Journey of Lewis and Clark The Industrial Revolution in the Early Republic Lowell: The Factory Comes to America The Irish in America: The Great Famine and the Great Migration From Jackson to Lincoln: The Emergence of a Democratic Nation “A Complete Emancipation:” The Birth of the Women’s Rights Movement The Abolitionist Movement Manifest Destiny: Images of an American Idea The Civil War	U.S. History: 1865–the Present This program uses visual and written primary sources sequentially to fit into a typical recent U.S. history class. Grades 8-12. The entire program consists of: Set of 10 Student Workbooks One Teacher’s Manual A Binder of 14 MindSparks® Sets, titles as follow: The Era of Reconstruction “Robber Barons” or “Captains of Industry” The Populist Revolt The Progressives “Votes for Women” America’s World War I The Roaring Twenties The Great Depression America’s World War II: A World in Flames America’s World War II: The Home Front The Cold Peace and the Korean War The Civil Rights Revolution Vietnam: America’s Longest War, Part 1 Vietnam: America’s Longest War, Part 2



Outline Maps On File More than 300 reproducible outlines. Updated 2006, 410 pages, middle school/high school.		Maps On File 500 reproducible maps of world information. Updated 2006, 2 sturdy 3-ring binders, 526 pages, reproducible, middle school/high school.


Historical Maps On File 400 maps from the dawn of civilization to the modern era, including the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Persian Gulf War, the fall of Communist states, and the Balkan conflicts. Approximately one-third of the collection is devoted to American history. Updated 2005, two sturdy 3-ring binders, 608 pages, reproducible, middle school/high school.		Geography On File More than 250 reproducible maps cover topics such as protected areas and grasslands, landmines, endangered reefs, nuclear arms proliferation, trawling areas, chemical weapons, precious metals, personal computers, dams around the world, and biological weapons. Updated 2005, in a sturdy 3-ring binder, 326 pages, reproducible, middle school/high school.