history

Text and accompanying photographs feature the lives and work of journalists who brought news of the war from European and Pacific theaters to the home front.

Rosa Parks discusses her life and shares her thoughts on freedom, equality, and faith.

Discusses the events and decisions that led to the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, particularly Truman's role as decision maker and initiator of the act.

Presents the history of how and why the hydrogen bomb was created, revealing the behind-the-scenes scientific and political drama in which the United States and the former Soviet Union played major roles.

Selections from diaries, historical works, letters, and fiction describing and analyzing the conditions of women's work, how they have changed over time, and the sources of these changes.

Presents an annotated edition of Flaubert's novel about a nineteenth-century French woman who pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers; and includes backgrounds and sources, and a selection of critical essays.

Presents portraits of various post-World War II writers based in Paris, focusing on the stories of Richard Wright, the African-American author who left the United States in search of freedom, and Maurice Girodias, founder of the Olympia Press.

Provides an essential historical context to illuminate the current national debate on child care.

A history of the inventiveness of applied science, from the stone tools hewn by the earliest prehistoric people to the dawn of the modern era in 1492.

Gives year-by-year entries of important people and events in African-American history.