A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
eginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers - mainly young women - suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work. The resulting Salem Witch Trials, culminating in the execution of 19 villagers, persists as one of the most mysterious and fascinating events in American history.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Penguin Readers - Level 6
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings recounts the trials and tribulations of Maya Angelou's life growing up as an impoverished black woman in the southern United States. Its story reveals the prejudice, poverty, and hardship suffered during that time, but also the importance of love, hope and dignity
Follow the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws.
The French Revolution of 1789 overthrew our King Louis XVI. In 1804, Napolean Bonaparte became our emperor. Now then years later, the wars by which Napoleon expected to conquer Europe were over. The allied powers of Europe had defeated us. They exiled Napoleon to the island of Elba, and restored the monarchy.
The joy of the people when Louis XVIII came to the throne was unbounded. We had suffered so much misery, and were so weary of battles, that we wished for nothing but to live in peace.
