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The United States is a global superpower. With fifty states and sixteen territories, the US is the world’s fourth largest country. More than 331 million people call the US home. Learn more about the US from its first peoples to its presidents. Discover the nation’s three branches of government. Then uncover the US’s challenges from climate change to becoming a fairer country. The US’s decisions on these topics will impact the rest of the world.
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Tracy Sue Walker
Tracy Sue Walker is an author of children's fiction and nonfiction including The Truth about Dragons. She earned her undergraduate degree from Agnes Scott College in anthropology. Tracy holds a masters' degrees in education as well as library and information science, but has also studied performance at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and writing at the Creative Circus in Atlanta. She is currently based in northern Georgia.
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