history

An examination of preserved bodies and grave sites provides scientists with information about the lives and deaths of ancient ancestors.

Text and accompanying photographs show that although major league baseball was closed to blacks and Latinos from 1890 to 1947 they formed their own teams and leagues. This is the story of those teams and the men who played on them.

Recounts the story of Emma Edmonds, the Canadian-born woman who disguised herself as a man and slipped behind Confederate lines to spy for the Union army.

Describes in text and pictures weapons used through the ages, from the stones of prehistoric man to the bombs of modern times.

Traces the development of the English language from its earliest beginnings to modern English, explaining how individual words evolved as a result of events in English history, and through usage.

Text and accompanying photographs describe the development and uses of different kinds of locks, relate stories about important locks in history, and discuss the meanings that the words lock and key have taken on in our language.

Discusses the events leading to and following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, including scientific, historical, political, and cultural contexts.

Traces the history of native North Americans from the time of the Creation to the present.

Describes the exploration of the oceans, above and below the surface, from the earliest navigators to the present day.

Narrates the saga of how the Mennonites left Prussia to avoid military service, went to southern Russia where they learned to raise Turkey Red wheat, and ultimately came to the United States where they helped make Kansas famous for its wheat.