Presents a brief biography of American traitor Benedict Arnold in graphic novel format, and describes both his heroism and his betrayal during the American Revolution.
Presents a short biography of African-American explorer Matthew Henson written in graphic novel format, and focuses on his attempts to reach the North Pole with Robert Peary in the late nineteenth century.
Presents a comic book version of the story of thirteenth-century explorer Marco Polo's journey to China, describing some of the things he saw while in the service of Kublai Khan.
Presents a short history of the voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 written in graphic novel format, and focuses on the reasons why the Pilgrims came to the New World and how they started Plymouth Colony.
A graphic novel that depicts the controversial life of Leon Trotsky, a Bolshevik and Marxist theorist, describing his involvement in the Russian Revolution, his multiple imprisonments and exiles, and related topics.
A graphic novel based on the author's 1995-96 visits to Gora?de, one of the U.N.-created "safe areas" in Eastern Bosnia, showing the brutality and humanity that coexisted there during the Bosnian War of 1992-95.
In graphic novel form, tells the story of Eucles, the Athenian messenger who, in 490 B.C., ran twenty-seven miles from Sparta to Athens, preventing the fall of Greece to the Persian Empire.
Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author continues the story of her life, discussing her move from Iran to Vienna in 1984, her feelings of alienation in the foreign country, and her return home where she starts college, falls in love, and questions whether she can continue to live in the repressive society.
A graphic novel account of the travels of journalist Steve Duin and cartoonist Shannon Wheeler to the Gulf Coast in 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Provides, in graphic form, information about the state of the world since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, covering the War on Terror, significant events and individuals, and other related topics.
