Altman, Linda Jacobs

Discusses the social conditions of the decade during which prohibition was in effect, the results of the legislation, and its failure to preserve traditional values.

Examines Hitler's plan to isolate European Jews in city ghettos and describes the bleak living conditions of the inhabitants.

Traces the battles that societies have waged against infectious diseases from the Black Death of the fourteenth century to the Ebola virus of more recent times.

Traces the history of slavery in the United States, focusing on the abolition movement and the final steps that freed an enslaved people.

Traces the African-American struggle for equality from slavery to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and beyond, and includes a chronology, chapter notes, and a glossary.

Discusses the effects and legacy of the Holocaust, including the experiences of survivors, the urgency to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the need for a worldwide human rights policy, and the need to examine the terrible cost of racism and hatred.

Nine-year-old Tamika uses photographs, school yearbooks, movie ticket stubs, and other mementos to try to restore the memory of her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease.

Explores the history of concern for human rights around the world, looking particularly at the internationalism begun in the last quarter of the twentieth century and its influence on human rights issues.

Explores the history of Kwanzaa, first created in the 1960s in order to provide awareness of African-American heritage.

Examines the institution of slavery in America and explains how both politics and the economy influenced the nation's decisions on slavery for over three hundred years.