Profiles in history

Contains seventeen biographical essays, speeches, and writings that trace the pharaohs of Egypt from Menes, the first ruler to unite both kingdoms in the first dynasty to Cleopatra during the Ptolemaic Dynasty in 31 BC, and includes profiles of Ramesses II, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamen.

Details the history of African-American participation and leadership in the abolitionist movement.

Presents a collection of biographical essays that profiles the lives of leading figures of the Civil Rights movement including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, and Malcolm X.

Details the history of African American women in the civil rights and abolitionist movements from the 19th century to the present day. Includes information on such figures as Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Marian Wright Edelman and Maxine Waters.

Offers biographical profiles of eight communist leaders whose actions had a significant impact on world history.

Profiles well-known terrorist leaders, including Osama Binladen, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and others, with an analysis of the different types of individual, religious, state-sponsored and ideological terrorism.

Presents a series a informational and biographical sketches on world leaders, past and present, that have made an impact on the fight for human rights, worldwide. Includes essays, interviews, and speeches with contributions from Nelson Mandela and Mohandas Gandhi.

Profiles Adolf Hitler; members of his inner circle, such as Hermann G?ring, Heinrich Himmler, and Albert Speer; and others who played major roles in the Third Reich and Final Solution, including Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann; and includes documents and a list of further resources.

Presents biographies of nineteen playwrights throughout history, from Aeschylus and Aristophanes to Arthur Miller and Lorraine Hansberry, and includes thirteen primary documents and a further reading list.