Frank Carlson Library

Provides an account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, a clash between a combined force of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne tribes and U.S. government forces in 1876, discussing the causes, course, and outcome of the event, and including information on key leaders in the battle, as well as photographs, illustrations, a time line, and other resources.

Learn about the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005.

Explores the events leading to the Louisiana Purchase, discussing significant individuals, the Treaty of Paris, the Jay Treaty of 1794, how the U.S. financed the deal, and other related topics.

Explores the Salem witch trials and how that event has sculpted societies, the sciences, and politics.

Examines the causes, events, aftermath, and historical significance of the 1917 revolution in Russia.

Examines the series of walls built to protect China from outsiders that is known as the Great Wall of China.

Examines the creation and history of the Jamestown Colony in colonial Virginia.

Presents the life and expeditions of explorer Zebulon Pike that chronicles his journeys into boththe American Northwest as well as into Mexican territory of the Southwest.