Recreates the life of the Indian daughter of Chief Powhatan, describing her friendship with the colonists of the Jamestown settlement, her marriage, and brief life in England.
Victor Villase?or recounts his own angry adolescence, describing the humiliation, misunderstanding, and abuse he faced at home and at school, and discussing how those events shaped his adult life.
A brief, illustrated, biography of the ancient Egyptian Cleopatra and the world in which she lived, and discusses her relationship with Julius Caesar, her fall from power, and her legendary suicide.
Presents an account of how the Civil War transformed the nation's capital into the seat of a forceful central government through the stories of the men and women who were part of the city during the mid-nineteenth century.
The biography of an outlaw, Charles Hendrickson, who robbed gold miners on the trails around Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1905, during the last of the great gold strikes.
Examines the life and reign of the woman who ruled Egypt from 51 to 30 B.C. and discusses her relationship with two powerful Roman leaders, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
Contains eighteen essays in which various contributors examine the lives and achievements of great black leaders from America, ancient Egypt, Africa, and the Caribbean.
