"American History" is a story about a girl in 1963. She is a Puerto Rican girl and she lives in the tenement building El Building. She sits on the fire escape and watches the family in the house beside her, a family from Georgia. Over time, she feels like part of the family. In school,...

KILL THEM AND TAKE THEIR LAND As the freezing Cherokee tribe trudged through the bitter winter weather for 800 miles to a land unknown to them, white people would scream, "Massacre! Cherokees on the warpath!" Soldiers would travel with Cherokees, at a 1 to 2 ratio, to comfort the town...