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What Was the Battle of Gettysburg?
By Jim O'Connor
"Four score and seven years ago..." begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the t...
What Was the Gold Rush?
By Joan Holub
In 1848, gold was discovered in California, attracting over 300,000 people from all over the worl...
What Was the March on Washington?
By Kathleen Krull
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights f...
What Was the Boston Tea Party?
By Kathleen Krull
"No Taxation without Representation!" The Boston Tea Party stands as an iconic event of the Ameri...
What Was Pearl Harbor?
By Patricia Brennan Demuth
A terrifying attack! On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the...
UC What Was the Underground Railroad?
By Yona Zeldis McDonough,Lauren Mortimer James Bennett
No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only ...
What Was Ellis Island?
By Patricia Brennan Demuth
From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions o...
What Was Pompeii?
By Jim O'Connor
The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one wa...
What Is the Statue of Liberty? (What Was?)
By Joan Holub
In 1876, France decided to give the United States a very big and very special present--the Statue...
What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was?)
By Janet Pascal
Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entir...
What Was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
By Judith St. George
When Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the "Corp of Discovery" left St. Louis, Missouri, on Ma...
What Was the Hindenburg?
By Janet Pascal
At 800-feet long, the Hindenburg was the largest airship ever built--just slightly smaller than t...
What Was D-Day?
By Patricia Brennan Demuth
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troo...
What Is the World Series? (What Was?)
By Gail Herman
"Strike – you’re out!" "He’s safe!" "Homerun!" Every October, millions of baseball fans around th...
What Was Hurricane Katrina?
By Robin Koontz
On August 25th, 2005, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in history hit the Gul...
What Were the Salem Witch Trials? (What Was?)
By Joan Holub
Something wicked was brewing in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. It started when t...
What Is the Super Bowl? (What Was?)
By Dina Anastasio
With over 110 million viewers every year, the Super Bowl is one of the most watched television ev...
What Was the Great Depression?
By Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ
On October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the ...
What Are the Summer Olympics? (What Was?)
By Gail Herman
Back in 775 BC, athletes from all over Ancient Greece came together to compete in various games. ...
What Is the Declaration of Independence? (What Was?)
By Michael C. Harris
Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country fre...
What Were the Twin Towers? (What Was?)
By Jim O'Connor
Discover the true story of the Twin Towers—how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world...
What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
By Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler
In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Fran...
What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
By Janet Pascal
Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the...
What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs?
By Megan Stine, Who HQ
Travel back to the time when the mighty dinosaurs ruled the earth.The Age of Dinosaurs began abou...
What Was the Wild West?
By Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ
Saddle up and get ready for a ride back into the wild and wooly past of the American West.The wes...
What Is Rock and Roll? (What Was?)
By Jim O'Connor, Who HQ
Put on your dancing shoes and move to the music.Rock and roll sprang from a combination of Africa...
What Was the Ice Age?
By Nico Medina, Who HQ
A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct cr...
What Was the Titanic?
By Stephanie Sabol, Who HQ
For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic tha...
What Was the Holocaust?
By Gail Herman
A thoughtful and age-appropriate introduction to an unimaginable event—the Holocaust.The Holocaus...
What Is the Constitution? (What Was?)
By Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ
We the people at Who HQ bring readers the full story--arguments and all--of how the US Constit...
What Is Climate Change? (What Was?)
By Gail Herman, Who HQ
Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is def...
What Is the Women's Rights Movement? (What Was?)
By Deborah Hopkinson, Who HQ
The story of Girl Power! Learn about the remarkable women who changed US history. From Susan B...
What Were the Roaring Twenties? (What Was?)
By Michele Mortlock, Who HQ
Flappers, flag-pole sitting, and the Ford Model T--these are just a few of the things that ins...
What Is the Stanley Cup? (What Was?)
By Gail Herman, Who HQ
Ice hockey fans will pull on their skates and gear up for this Who HQ title about the Stanley Cup...
What Was Stonewall?
By Nico Medina, Who HQ
How did a spontaneous protest outside of a New York City bar fifty years ago spark a social movem...
What Is NASA? (What Was?)
By Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ
Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series. The Natio...
What Was the Vietnam War?
By Jim O'Connor, Who HQ
Learn how the United States ended up fighting for twenty years in a remote country on the other s...
What Was the Berlin Wall?
By Nico Medina, Who HQ
The Berlin Wall finally came down in 1989. Now readers can find out why it was built in the first...
What Were the Negro Leagues? (What Was?)
By Varian Johnson, Who HQ
This baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American ...
What Are the Paralympic Games? (What Was?)
By Gail Herman, Who HQ
It's time to cheer for the inspiring athletes of the Paralympic Games! As the Opening Ceremon...
What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima?
By Jess M Brallier, Who HQ
Hiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why a...
What Is LEGO? (What Was?)
By Jim O'Connor, Who HQ
Find out how these fun, stackable blocks became the most popular toys in the world. The LEGO t...
What Is a Presidential Election?: The Official Who HQ Election Book (What Was?)
By Douglas Yacka, Who HQ
The 2020 Election is here! And so is this book, which tells young readers all about presidenti...
