Steve Sheinkin

Packed with true stories and real quotes you'll never find in textbooks, this is the amazing, surprising, funny, and never-boring adventure of the American Revolution. This exciting new book includes dozens of original cartoons in which famous and not-so-famous characters deliver their quotes right to the reader.

In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific …

Get the feeling something big is about to happen? Welcome to the Civil War―one of the scariest, saddest, and occasionally wackiest stories in American History.1856: Northern and Southern settlers attack each other in Kansas.1858: Congressmen start sneaking guns and knives into the Senate chamber.1860: President James …