Many voices : true tales from America's past / The National Storytelling Association ; [project director and editor, Mary C. Weaver].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weaver, Mary C., editor.

National Storytelling Association (U.S.), publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Anecdotes--Juvenile literature.

United States.

History.

United States--History--Anecdotes.

Storytelling.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 206 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jonesborough, Tenn. : National Storytelling Press, 1995.

Summary:

Includes thirty-six stories, based on facts, describing people and events from over three hundred years of American history.

Contents:

1643 Anne Hutchinson / Jonathan Kruk

1680 The man who would not change his name / Judith Kinter

1758 Ticonderoga / Joseph Bruchac

1777 Lydia Darragh / Jack Briggs

1780 Gone to war / Lucinda Flodin

1805 Sacagawea's story / Michael Carney

1806 A love story / Ruth Stotter

1838 Tsali: Cherokee hero of the Smoky Mountains / Ducan Sings-Alone

1850 Tom Stowe / Paul Leone

1851 Katherine Lesperance

1856 Willie and handcart boy / John L. Beach

1858 Pioneering spirit: The story of Julia Archibald Holmes / John Stansfield

1861 Why Lincoln grew a beard / Lucille Breneman

1863 A cold night / R. Craig Roney.505 0 0 (Cont.) 1865 The story of Wilmer McLean / Mike T. Mullen

1869 The Cardiff giant / Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss

1873 Wild Bill Hickok in Springfield / Richard Alan Young and Judy Dockrey Young

1881 Inspector Walsh and Sitting Bull / Marie Anne McLean

1885 Aunt Clara Brown / Kay Negash

1887 Launching a scientist: Robert Goddard's first attempt at Rocketry / Kendall Haven

1890 The year of the turnip in Oklahoma / Fran Stallings

1892 Zayde's trunk / Karen Golden

1904 Scott Joplin: Master of ragtime / Bobby Norfolk

1910 The courage of Ed Pulaski / Jim Cogan

1911 The laundry man who overthrew the Qing Dynasty / Charlie Chin

1914 Staecoach Mary / Sharon Y. Holley

1914 The horse that went to war / Sheila Dailey

1915 Say goodbye to Papa: The Regina Sinreich Barton story / Annette Harrison.505 0 0 (Cont.) 1929 Rider on an orphan train / David Massengill

1941 The herring shed / Jay O'Callahan

1944 Rosie the riveter / Judith Black

1945 Such things to write about / Paul Q. Lipman and Doug Limpman

1966 The garbage story / Susan "Supe" O'Halloran

1971 An orange / Joel ben Izzy

1987 Snapshot, 1944 / David Mas Masumoto

1989 Precious freedom / Hanna Bandes Geshelin.

Notes:

" ©1995 by the National Storytelling Association"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

1879991179

OCLC:

32745576