history

Examines the way society viewed health and disease during the European Renaissance period and discusses poor diets and lack of hygiene, common ailments and treatments, surviving childbirth, plagues, doctors, and herbal remedies.

Explores the various punishments given out to thieves, murderers, and other criminals in ancient Greece.

Presents a student study guide to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, providing biographical information, advice on how to read her poems, and a critical examination of "I Heard a Fly Buzz," "A Bird Came Down the Walk," and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death.".

Examines the history of segregation in America and efforts in the mid-twentieth century to challenge Jim Crow laws through the desegregation of schools.

The history of the White House, including the story of its construction, interesting and important facts and statistics, and its importance as an American symbol.

Describes holidays celebrated by European settlers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, and explains what "bees" were, including land clearing, food preparation, quilting bees, and barn and house raisings.

Illustrated photographs and essays profile generations of children who grew up on Alcatraz Island; and contains personal stories and interviews with surviving Alcatraz kids.

Two fifteen-year-old boys in Missouri in 1863 find friendship and family loyalty tested by Quantrell's raiders, a Rebel guerrilla band who roamed under the black flag of "no quarter to be given by Union troops.".

Explains the development, practice, and effects of the slave trade in the Americas with illustrations and photographs, maps and graphs, an index, and a timeline.

Profiles the milestones in the history of science, focusing on twelve individuals and their extraordinary breakthroughs.