Entries by Jim McCabe

Free: Revolts, Resistance and Emancipation by Dorothy Sterling. Grade Level is 9.1

Here is the story of the slavery issue from the first slave traders through the African-American part in early American history and the Civil War, and the events and people who played a part in the history-making document, the Emancipation Proclamation. Read about Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner who led revolts, and the settlements of […]

Thomas Edison: American Inventor by Ray Eldon Hiebert and Roselyn Hiebert

Download in the epub format for Android and Apple devices: Download in the mobi format for Amazon devices: A self-made man with little formal education, Thomas Edison had a remarkable mind and possessed the imagination, creative ability, self-confidence, and perseverance to succeed brilliantly in his field. It was he who perfected the incandescent electric bulb, […]

Tom Paine-America’s Godfather by W. E. Woodward, Grade Level is 10.3

Download an epub version here: Download a version for Kindle Fires and other Amazon devices: An excerpt from a review in The New York Times: Paine’s Career Highly Dramatic Mr. Woodward writes of Paine with the brisk and lively vigor that has distinguished all his books. Subtleties of character analysis and beauties of language he […]

Abraham Lincoln by James Daugherty

Download the epub format for Android tablets, Chromebooks and Apple devices: Download the mobi format for Amazon devices: James Henry Daugherty (1889-1974), winner of a Newbery Medal for Children’s Literature, was born in Asheville, North Carolina, but grew up in Indiana and Ohio. When he was 9, the family moved to Washington D.C., where he […]