Entries by Jim McCabe

Teaching U.S. History with eBooks and Electives by Jim McCabe

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including the Send-to-Kindle feature in Amazon. Download  the mobi file for Amazon devices except the Send to Kindle feature  here. This is a guidebook to ninety free eBooks, primarily about American history, from three non-profits: Project Gutenberg, StandardeBooks, and this site. The idea is […]

Sea and Earth: The Life of Rachel Carson

Download in epub format for Chromebooks, and Apple devices: Download for Kindle Fires or other Amazon devices: This is the story of the most important science writer of the 20th century. With “Silent Spring” Rachel Carson shocked Americans into reevaluating the man-made chemicals that have polluted our whole environment. Carson “jolted the entire country into […]

Shirley Chisholm by Susan Brownmiller

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including the Send-to-Kindle feature in Amazon. Download  the mobi file for Amazon devices except the Send to Kindle feature  here. Critics’ Corner: “The author chronicles major events in Shirley Chisholm’s life and career from her childhood in Barbados through her first year as Representative […]

So Big by Edna Ferber

Here is the epub format: Here is the mobi format for Amazon devices: Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber’s crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago’s high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler’s daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain […]