history

A history of the Chicago Bears football team, providing information about some of the team's most notable players and coaches, and including statistics and records.

Describes 250 milestones in the history of space and astronomy, including the Big Bang, the birth of the Sun, celestial navigation, dark matter, the Hubble space telescope, and Cassini's exploration of Saturn.

A survey of art history from cave painting to conceptual art, featuring page-length essays, sidebars, time lines, and annotated photographs and reproductions that provide succinct information about important works and artists.

Describes the lives and inspirations of several important mapmakers throughout history, such as Cheng Ho, Captain James Cook, and Phyllis Pearsall, and includes map reproductions.

These adventurers charted previously unknown territories, encountered, and often tragically exploited, native peoples, and changed the fate of the global landscape.

Explore the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States through primary and secondary sources, both historical and contemporary. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Discusses the life and work of the inventor who developed the steamboat and made it a commercial success.