Meltzer, Milton

A history of black people in the United States, as told through letters, speeches, articles, eyewitness accounts, and other documents.

On title page: With 100 photographs by noted photographers, past and present. Biographies of ten photographers who used their cameras to expose injustice and tragedy, with examples of some of their outstanding pictures.

A collection of accounts of personal experiences of Jewish Americans, taken from letters, journals, diaries, autobiographies, speeches, and other documents.

Describes detective work done by private investigators as well as members of police departments.

An account of the Nazi destruction of six million Jews during World War II, with personal experiences of life in the ghettos and concentration camps recorded in letters, diaries, memoirs, poems, and songs.

A biography of twentieth-century American journalist and author, John Steinbeck, that chronicles both his personal and professional life and classic works that reflect upon some of the most turbulent times of American history.

Explains the mechanics of the first printing press, invented in Germany by Gutenberg in the fifteenth century, and describes the press's revolutionary impact on the world.

Explains the mechanics of the cotton gin, invented in the late eighteenth century by Eli Whitney, and describes how it enabled, tragically, the vast expansion of the American slave trade.

Pictures and text chronicle the voyages of Captain Cook in the Pacific and the Antarctic fringe.

A biography of the nineteenth-century poet, which presents his life in the context of his times, and includes samples of his writing.