People at the center of

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The Mexican-American War

2005
Presents profiles of more than fifteen people who played significant roles in the Mexican-American War of the 1840s.

The French Revolution

2006
Presents brief biographical sketches on a collection of key individuals of the French Revolution, in simple text with illustrations, including Napolean Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Paine, and more.

World War II

2004
Profiles people involved in World War II, including both political and military leaders on both sides of the conflict.

World War I

2004
Profiles people involved in World War I, including both political and military leaders on both sides of the conflict.

Women's suffrage

2004
Profiles early leaders in the fight for women's rights, especially the right to vote, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

The Salem witch trials

2004
Presents profiles of sixteen significant people who influenced, caused, or reacted to the Salem witch trials of 1692 during which hundreds of men and women were jailed after being accused of witchcraft, and over twenty lost their lives.

Prohibition

2004
Profiles key figures in the fight for prohibition in the United States.

The Industrial Revolution

2004
Profiles fifteeen men and women who were at the center of the Industrial Revolution.

The civil rights movement

2004
Profiles people who led the civil rights movement in the United States, including Rosa Parks, Asa Philip Randolph, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Booker T. Washington.

The American Revolution

2004
Profiles people involved in the Revolutionary War as soldiers, politicians, or in other capacities, including King George II, Benedict Arnold, and Mary Hays McCauly (Molly Pitcher).

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