reformers

A biography of the German monk who led the Protestant Reformation in Europe from its beginning in 1517 until his death in 1546.

Examines the life of Carry Nation, whose destruction of saloons and other businesses that sold liquor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century won her both praise and criticism from fellow prohibitionists and temperance workers.

Presents the life and times of the woman born into slavery who became a well-known abolitionist and crusader for the rights of African-Americans.

Profiles eight leaders for their attempts to introduce functional democracy in their respective countries: Andrei Sakharov, Alexander Dubcek, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, Father Jerzy Popieluszko, and Pastor Laszlo Tokes.

Photographs and text trace the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.

A collection of essays written by current historians discusses the components of great leadership and reflects upon why FDR was a more successful Depression-era leader than Hoover and why Grant was one of the best presidents in American history.

Biographical portraits of twenty-nine individuals who fought for human rights, from Roger Williams and Thomas Paine to Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King.

Profiles the lives of nine women who worked behind the scenes to impact the events of the twentieth century including early civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells and and Frances Perkins who became the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet.

A brief biography of the abolitionist and women's rights activist who spent twenty-eight years of her life as a slave.