Collective biographies

Discusses the lives and influences of Mathew B. Brady, Jacob A. Riis, Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Wickes Hine, Man Ray, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Diane Arbus, and Gordon Parks.

Profiles ten authors popular with teenage readers: Judy Blume, Virginia Hamilton, Julius Lester, Lois Lowry, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Katherine Paterson, Gary Paulsen, Gary Soto, R.L. Stine, and Laurence Yep; and includes primary and secondary bibliographies.

Discusses the lives of John Adams, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, George Mason, William Paterson, Roger Sherman, Gouverneur Morris, and Richard Henry Lee.

Presents information on ten winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom which was established in 1945 to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to life in the United States, whether through politics, sports, business, or the arts.