Latham, Jean Lee

A biography of Eli Whitney tracing his long legal journey to win rights over his pirated cotton gin and to fulfill his Government contract for ten thousand muskets with interchangable parts.

The childhood, military career, and political life of the man who fought for the statehood of Texas.

Retellings of three popular fairy tales.

A brief account of Sam Houston who served as a Congressman and Governor of Tennessee before his association with Texas began.

A biography of the man who rose from debt to amass a small fortune, and became the driving force behind the successful laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.

A biography of the Swedish-American engineer credited with over 2000 inventions as well as the design and construction of several types of boats. History remembers him for the construction of the Monitor, the little ironclad warship that held its own against the Merrimack.

A biography of Eli Whitney tracing his long legal journey to win rights over his pirated cotton gin and to fulfill his Government contract for ten thousand muskets with interchangable parts.

After hearing a fairy tale about how her toy nutcracker got his ugly face, a little girl helps to break the spell and change him to a handsome prince.