PHOTOGRAPHS:

AP/Wide World: p16 (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, © Kamenko Pajic Stringer); Art Resource: p19 (U.S. Army poster, © Smithsonian Art Museum, Washington DC/Art Resource, NY); Eric Bouvet: p20 (I.M. Pei) CORBIS: cover, p24 (flag, © Bohemian Nomad Picturemakers), p1 (Sally Ride, © Bettmann/CORBIS), p1 and p23 (Colin Powell, © Leif Skoogfors; César Chávez, © Ted Streshinsky), p1 and p10 (Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale, © Bettmann/CORBIS), p1 (Laura Ingalls Wilder, © Bettmann/CORBIS), p2 (cowboy, © Buddy Mays/CORBIS), p3 (woman painter © CORBIS; immigrants, © Bettmann/CORBIS; Martin Luther King, © Bettmann/CORBIS), p10 (Nat Love, © Bettmann/CORBIS; John Wesley Powell, © CORBIS), p11 (Annie Oakley, © Bettmann/CORBIS), p12 (Wright Flyer, © Museum of Flight/CORBIS; Wright brothers, © Bettmann/CORBIS), p17 (Madeleine Albright, © Reuters NewMedia Inc./CORBIS; Stephen Wozniak, © Roger Ressmeyer; Jonas Salk, © Bettmann/CORBIS), p18 (women voting, © CORBIS), p18 (Susan B. Anthony, © S.A. Taylor), p20 (Sally Ride, © Bettmann/CORBIS), p22 (John Muir, © CORBIS; Amelia Earhart, © Bettmann/CORBIS); Denver Public Library Western History Collection: cover and p8 (pioneers); Courtesy of DuPont: p16 (Stephanie Kwolek); Courtesy of Estefan Enterprises: p23 (Gloria Estefan); george Contorakes: p24 (girl in dark shirt); tobias Everke: p20 (Donna Karan); getty Images: p1 and p20 (Duke Ellington, © Hulton Getty/John Kobal Foundation), p2 (Thomas Edison), p3 (soldier, © John Chiasson), p11 (Benjamin Franklin), p17 (George Washington Carver), p20 (Dr. Michael DeBakey © Kabokov/Liaison), p21 (Alexandra Nechita, © Jon Freeman/Online USA Inc.); The Granger Collection, NY: p2 (Hernando DeSoto), p6 (Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull), p7 (Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea by N.C. Wyeth), p8 (Oregon Trail by William Henry Jackson), p9 (cowboy), p10 (Sacagawea), p13 (transcontinental railroad), p14 (immigrants), p15 (family, © Arnold Genthe), p16 (Henry Ford); Liz Garza Williams: p24 (boy in yellow, boy in red shirt, girl in purple and white); Michigan Tech University: p23 (“Big Annie” Clemenc); Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections: p2 (pioneers); Nasa: p1 (Mae Jemison); NFL Photos: p20 (Dat Nguyen, © James D. Smith/NFL Photos); PhotoDisc: cover, p1, pp4-5, pp10-11, pp16-17, pp22-23, back cover (musical notes), p24 (boy in dark jacket, girl with trumpet, girl in blue and white); PhotoEdit: p4 (woman sewing and doctor, © Michael Newman; teacher, © D. Young-Wolff), p5 (woman with pot, © Jeff Greenberg; politician, © Tony Freeman); The Stock Market: p4 (man in fur coat, © 90 Clark Mishler/ALASKA; computer programmer, © LWA-Dann Tardif), p5 (farmer, © Peter Beck); Courtesy of Susan Bergholz Literary Services: p1 and p20 (Sandra Cisneros); Courtesy of University of Texas Austin Robert Runyon Photograph Collection: p15 (girl in white).

ILLUSTRATIONS

Paul Bachem: p7 (Lewis, Clark, York, and Sacagawea).

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