history

A biography of one of the first leaders of the women's rights movement, whose work led to the adoption of the nineteenth amendment that ensured women's right to vote.

Profiles eight men and women whose artwork serves as visual documentation of critical events and cultural eras in American history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Presents an overview of hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, blizzards, floods, and other types of dangerous weather, provides a time line of catastrophic weather events from c. 3200 B.C. to 1997, features a chronology of meteorological discovery, and includes a selection of weather experiments.

Text and accompanying photographs show the use of children as industrial workers, interwoven with the story of Lewis W. Hine who took these photographs and whose life work made significant difference in the lives of others.

A biography of the Wisconsin Senator whose questionable methods as a "Communist witch-hunter" brought him fame in the decade after World War II and led to his eventual censure by the United States Senate.

Features brief summaries of the lives of famous scientists and of significant contributions to such fields as medicine, mathematics, biology, and physics.

Based on first-person accounts and illustrated with vintage photographs and drawings, this book reveals how black soldiers influenced the outcome of the Civil War and the decades that followed.

Documents the history of hobos and tramps in America. Includes accounts of how they travel, hobo "jungles", and the work they did which helped to build America.

Introduces 10 brilliant women whose research has helped to shape the course of science, a thus far male-dominated field.

Surveys the history of television and the different kinds of programs broadcast, including situation comedies, dramas, and children's television.