portraits

Profiles sixteen Confederate generals who came to represent Southern leadership, including Robert E. Lee, J. E. B. Stuart, James Longstreet, and P. G. T. Beauregard; also includes more than two hundred photos and period illustrations.

Profiles seventy-five surviving Navajo code talkers and discusses how they helped the United States devise a code that the Japanese could not break during World War II.

Presents black-and-white photographs of residents from the small Iowa community of Oxford, taken in 1984 and again two decades later, with accompanying first-person narratives.

Originally issued in 1890, this book is a pictorial and a written record of the daily experiences of the Civil War.

"This portfolio contains a selection of the best and most poignant portraits by Steve McCurry, known and loved the world over for his beautiful and enduring images of the landscapes and cultures of South and Southeast Asia. The collection includes some iconic as well as previously unknown portraits of children, monks, pilgrims and travellers that McCurry has encountered on his journeys throughout Afghanistan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan and Tibet."--BOOK JACKET.

People who live and work in the Adirondack mountains are captured in black and white photographs.

A compilation of photographs from the high school yearbooks of celebrities.