Slavicek, Louise Chipley

Chronicles the life of explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, focusing on his many accomplishments in the New World.

Tells the life story of naturalist and museum patron Annie Montague Alexander, describing her childhood in Hawaii, her initiation to field collecting at a relatively late age, and the forty years she spent amassing specimens for the two museums she founded at the University of California at Berkeley.

Presents a biography of Jane Addams, discussing how she overcame the limitations imposed on women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to become a preeminent political reformer, feminist, and antiwar activist. Includes photographs, a chronology, and further reading sources.

Explores the history of Central Park, discussing the planning, construction, architecture, and uses of the New York landmark.

This book describes the Prohibition Era (1920-1933), a period when the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution forbade Americans from manufacturing, selling, or transporting alcoholic beverages.