history

Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.

Explores the history of the Internet--how it was developed and refined, the people involved, and future possibilities.

Examines the 1920 trial of eight Chicago White Sox baseball players accused of conspiracy to commit an illegal act when they allegedly took money from gangsters to lose the 1919 World Series.

Describes how the black community of Montgomery, Alabama, staged the 1955 boycott to end segregation on public buses and discusses that struggle in the context of the Civil Rights Movement.

Describes the Last Great Age of Magic, which preceeded the Age of Science, describing all aspects of the magical arts, including the Dark Arts, the realm of the devil, Natural Magic, divination, astrology, and alchemy.

Describes seventeen twentieth-century historic flights and their pilots, from the Wright brothers to those of the space shuttles.

Presents the Wright brothers' story in comic book format, chronicling Orville and Wilbur's unsuccessful flying attempts and ultimate success at Kitty Hawk in 1903.

An illustrated, decade-by-decade collection of biological profiles of significant African-Americans, from W.E.B. DuBois to Tiger Woods.

During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

Chronicles the lives of Orville and Wilbur Wright, describing their family life, their road to fame as the world's first pilots, and their important role in history. Includes many quotations from primary and secondary sources; a chronology; and an annotated bibliography.