history

Explores the early space race and space technology along with space walks and the Apollo 11 moon landing written in graphic novel format.

Text, period photographs, and news clippings tell the stories of the female journalists who fought to cover World War II and report from the front lines.

John A. Stokes, one of the leaders of the student strike at R. R. Morton High School in 1951, describes the conditions in which he and his fellow classmates learned and provides an account of how they fought against segregation.

Chronicles the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, the leaders of the movement, and how the children helped in the fight to end segregation in the South.

Presents color photos of more than five hundred American flags and flag-related artifacts collected by graphic designer Kit Hinrichs, arranged in the categories of celebration, commerce, art and folk art, play, politics and protest, Native American art, and war; and also provides a chronological history of the American flag.

Discusses some of Egypt's most famous artifacts and monuments, including the pyramids, the Rosetta Stone, and, especially, the Great Sphinx, presenting research and speculation about their origins and their future.

Examines the history of fashion and clothing in Mexico, discusses the geographical, social, and cultural influences on how people dress, describes both traditional and modern garb, and looks at what men, women, and children are wearing in the early twenty-first century.

Examines the history of fashion and clothing in Japan, discusses the geographical, social, and cultural influences on how people dress, describes both traditional and modern garb, and looks at what men, women, and children are wearing in the early twenty-first century.

Contains over fifty archival photographs profiling the men and women who played an instrumental role in exposing the political corruption and corporate greed that existed during the early part of the twentieth century.

Humorous illustrations describe the culture and traditions of Paris and of the aristocracy during the time of the French Revolution.