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Ali's Knockout Punch: How a Photograph Stunned the Boxing World by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured History Sports Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
It's one of the most famous sports images of all time. Former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston is sprawled on his back in the boxing rim. Muhammad Ali stands over Liston, holding his right hand as if ready to throw another punch. The reigning world champion had just thrown a short, right-handed ...Show more
Black Power Salute: How a Photograph Captured a Political Protest by Danielle Smith-Llera
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Category: History | Series: Captured History Sports Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
Two American athletes made history at the 1968 Summer Olympics, but not on the track. They staged a silent protest against racial injustice. Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter sprint, stood with heads bowed and black-gloved fists raised as the national anthem played ...Show more
Captured Science History: Fukushima Disaster: How a Tsunami Unleashed Nuclear Destruction by Danielle Smith-Llera
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Category: History | Series: Captured Science History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
A massive tsunami caused by the strongest earthquake to ever hit Japan triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since the Chernobyl accident 25 years earlier. The monster waves that crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March 2011 killed 15,000 people and caused nuclear reactor meltdowns ...Show more
Che Guevara's Face - How a Cuban Photographer's Image Became a Cultural Icon by Danielle Smith-Llera
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Category: History | Series: Captured World History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
What has been called the most famous photograph in the world, and a symbol of the 20th century, began as a spur of the moment snapshot by a Cuban photographer. Alberto Korda transformed a simple photo into a world famous portrait of a larger than life revolutionary. Korda's 1960 photo of Che Guevara's d ...Show more
Chernobyl Explosion - How a Deadly Nuclear Accident Frightened the World by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured Science History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
The long-term damage from an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant more than 30 years ago is still unknown. When explosions ripped through the reactor in rural Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, they spewed huge amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere and caused the worst nuclea ...Show more
Death at Kent State - How a Photograph Brought the Vietnam War Home to America by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
It didn't seem possible. Four college students shot dead May 4, 1970, by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War. The shootings at Kent State University would shock the nation and spark a mass student strike across the country, the only one in U.S. history. A photojournalism stu ...Show more
Exposing Hidden Worlds - How Jacob Riis' Photos Became Tools for Social Reform by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
President Theodore Roosevelt called Jacob Riis "the best American I ever knew." The pioneering photojournalist--an immigrant from Denmark--drew attention to the poverty and evils of slum life in the late 1800s. Riis won national acclaim when his photos illustrated his bestselling book How the Other Half ...Show more
Exxon Valdez - How a Massive Oil Spill Triggered an Environmental Catastrophe by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured Science History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
The biggest oil spill in U.S. history that polluted the pristine waters of Alaska decades ago and killed thousands of birds, mammals, and fish, still haunts the people who are living with its aftermath. On Good Friday 1989, the huge oil tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground in Prince William Sound, spilling ...Show more
Finding the Titanic: How Images from the Ocean Depths Fueled Interest in the Doomed Ship by Michael Burgan
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Category: Junior Nonfiction | Series: Captured Science History Ser.
On the night of April 14, 1912, as it made its first voyage, the luxury steamship Titanic struck an iceberg. Then, a few hours after midnight on April 15, the ship sank thousands of feet before settling on the ocean floor. And that's where it stayed, whereabouts unknown, for the next 73 years until it w ...Show more
Ground Zero: How a Photograph Sent a Message of Hope by Don Nardo
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Category: History | Series: Captured History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
The tragic events of September 11, 2001, sent shock waves around the globe that are still felt today. Nearly 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks and thousands more were injured. On the afternoon of the attacks, three firefighters paused in their rescue work to raise an American flat at Ground Zer ...Show more
Hitler in Paris: How a Photograph Shocked a World at War by Don Nardo; Arnold Krammer (Consultant Editor); Robert L. McConnell (Contribution by)
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Category: History | Series: Captured World History Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 05-08
World War II was in its early days when brutal German dictator Adolf Hitler paid a visit to Paris, the capital of France. Only days before, on June 14, 1940, German soldiers had overrun the city, shocking the world. Hitler now viewed the city's cultural treasures as his own. He posed for a photo in fron ...Show more
Olympic Gold 1936: How the Image of Jesse Owens Crushed Hitler's Evil Myth by Michael Burgan
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Category: History | Series: Captured History Sports Ser. | Reading Level: Grade 07-08
Jesse Owens' gold-medal winning feats at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin struck a mighty propaganda blow against Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader had planned to use the German games as a showcase of supposed Aryan superiority. Instead, there was American black athlete Owens on the podium being photographed by ...Show more