biography

A collection of stories, essays, and poems from the California coast focusing on life, wildlife, and native people.

Features a collection of poems, stories, and essays that provide a historical look at the Great Lakes and what it is like to live among their plants, animals, landscapes, and weather. Describes encounters with animals, and documents adventures like canoeing and fishing trips. Profiles a variety of states, including Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, and New York, as well as Ontario.

Highlights the contributions of Esteban, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, Jim Beckwourth, and George McJunkin.

Explores the life and legend of lawman Wyatt Earp. Examines the aspects of his life that gained him everlasting notoriety, notably his participation in the shootout at the O.K. Corral, and considers his role as both a hero and icon of the American West.

This film draws upon archival materials, original recreations, and interviews with authors and historians to explore the life of the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier known as Kit Carson and provide a lens on a pivotal but little-understood era in American history.

The story of the Thornton family, which produced two doctors, a dentist, an attorney, a nurse, and a court stenographer. Donald Thornton worked two full-time jobs to support his family and prodded and inspired his six daughters to pursue education and succeed as young musicians and in their professions.

An eyewitness account of Democratic leaders and activists who attempt to mold America's future by African-American political organizer Donna Brazile.

In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation.

Loung Ung recounts her struggles to adapt to life in America after arriving in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee.

Documents the co-author's survival story as a Jewish-Polish youth who faced death multiple times as an armament factory slave laborer and Auschwitz survivor, tracing her brief and beautiful marriage to a first husband who did not survive the war.