King Curriculum Lab

The document below contains a list of some children's books on the history of the United States located in the King Curriculum Lab, Florida Curriculum Center, and Kinlaw Library.  These books have been organized in the following categories.

• Native Americans in Early Europe
• European Arrival and Colonial Times
• Revolution and Independence
• The Civil War and Slavery
• Westward Expansion and Frontier Life
• Immigration and Early 20th Century
• World War I and World War II
• Civil Rights Movement and Era
• The Cold War
• Vietnam War
• September 11
• War on Terrorism (Afghanistan and Iraq)
• American Presidents
• Inventors
• Geography and United States History in General

Within each category, books are listed in ascending order by grade level.

The document below contains a list of some children's books on world history located in the King Curriculum Lab, Florida Curriculum Center, and Kinlaw Library.  These books have been organized in the following categories:

• Prehistoric People and Times
• Mesopotamian Civilization
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Mongol Empire
• Imperial China
• Viking Age
• Middle Ages
• King Arthur Legend
• Knights
• Age of Exploration
• Pirates
• Shakespeare
• Napoleon
• Irish Potato Famine
• Titanic
• Great Depression
• World War II
• Apartheid in South Africa
• Bosnian War
• Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Geography
• Global Community

Within each category, books are listed in ascending order by grade level.  For some categories, parentheses have been added after book titles. These parentheses provide more information about the book's topic.

The sites below contain lists of children's picture, nonfiction, and fiction books on world history and United States history.  They often categorize books by era, event, and/or location.  Many of the sites include grade levels for books.  

What are Primary Sources?  Essentially, primary sources are first hand accounts of an event.  Examples may include diaries, photographs, audio files, video recordings, memoirs, maps, artifacts, etc.  The descriptions are from the sites.  These sources were gathered from Carol Maksian's LibGuide for Florida Gulf Coast University.

The links below contain social studies resources for teachers and students provided by Kentucky Educational Television.  These resources are free.

To locate children's books in the King Curriculum Lab, use the following guide for call numbers:

• E = Easy Reader & Picture Books (fiction for elementary students; located by the Narnia mural)
• NF = Nonfiction books (for elementary students; located after the curriculum section)
• J = Juvenile  (chapter books for upper elementary students; located behind the Easy Reader section) 
• YA = Young Adult fiction books (for middle and high school students; located after the Juvenile section)
• YANF = Young Adult nonfiction books (for middle and high school students; located after the YA fiction section next to the lab's back door)

When searching for children's books in the library's online catalog, do an Advanced Search.  Select "Audience" and "Juvenile." Type your term in the search box.