A small snowball gets bumped by a skier and rolls down the hill growing in size and picking up people as it goes.

An adaptation of the bestselling adult version of The Century, offering young Americans a unique look at the past 100 years, via not only archival material but through the eyes of the people who lived through it.

"Four score and seven years ago ... so begins one of the most important speeches in the history of the United States--Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address."

Examines the historical background in the Civil War of the famous speech made during the dedication of the new national cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the impact it had on the United States throughout the years.

One hundred brief stories about real people and occurences in American history, arranged in chronological order by year from 1565 to 2000.

"In My Hands began as one non-Jew's challenge to any who would deny the Holocaust. Much like The Diary of Anne Frank, it has become a profound document of an individual's heroism in the face of the greatest evil mankind has known. In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut's beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of horrors that somehow gave her the strength to accomplish what...