US History through infographics

US History through infographics

Karen Latchana Kenney

Book - 2015

"Wrapping your head around centuries of American history can make you dizzy. You need to know about the land (828,000 acres from the Louisiana Purchase alone), the people (from the earliest American Indian peoples to the immigrants of the last few centuries), and the high stakes (from a risky revolution to an international space race). How can all these dates and details make more sense? Infographics! The charts, maps, and illustrations in this book tell a visual story to help you better understand key concepts about our country's history." --p. [4] of cover.

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Subjects
United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Published
Minneapolis : Lerner Publications 2015.
Language
English
Main Author
Karen Latchana Kenney (-)
Other Authors
Laura Westlund (illustrator)
Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Audience
700L
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781467734592
9781467745680
  • Mound Builders
  • The New World
  • Starting a colony
  • Slave trade
  • The road to independence
  • Cheap land
  • Ready, set, homestead!
  • Gold fever
  • The bloodiest war
  • Waves of people
  • Enemy aliens
  • Race to space.
Review by Booklist Review

The infographic emerged as the perfect antidote to the clutter of the Internet: simple, creative, appealing representations of complicated subjects. The Super Social Studies Infographics series attempts and largely succeeds in extending the concept across several thematic volumes. Though the specific topics covered in each book can be scattershot, they are always helped along by each illustrator's command of what has become the infographic's trademark: tidy, droll, fine-lined charts and graphs that are innately appealing. U.S History through Infographics is most impressive when offering up graphs that feel unique and revelatory, such as the map/populations of Japanese American internment caps during WWII. Clarity across the series is inconsistent, but interest levels always remain high.--Kraus, Daniel Copyright 2015 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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