La tierra y la importancia del agua

Christopher Columbus most likely wasn’t the person to discover the Americas. He wasn’t even the first European to do so! Despite that, his three trips to the Western Hemisphere led to many more European explorers heading in that direction. In this volume, readers familiar with Columbus’s travels on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria can learn who Columbus was beyond his travels. Supported by full-color and historic images, interesting main content turns what readers think they know about the life of Columbus on its head while expounding on an important period in the history of the world.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, it prompted the United States to enter World War II on multiple fronts. From Africa to Europe, the Pacific to the home front, explore the American experience of World War II through the first-hand documents of the war.

Presents poetry by the editors and by poets from Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Argentina, along with traditional verse.

Introduces the many levels of government leadership in the United States and discusses the presidency, Congress, state and local governments, and the judiciary.