biography

Chronicles the life of Sacagawea, focusing on her involvement in Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's historic 1805 expedition to explore the American Northwest wilderness.

A woman who grew up in the blighted Bronx during the 1960s offers a memoir of poverty, abuse, and the welfare system, describing a world of urban decay, rampant crime, race riots, white flight, alcohol and drugs, and her own difficult struggle to achieve self-sufficiency.

Presents introductory information on the Civil War and the personal toll it took on everyday people, with interactive facsimiles of historical documents, letters, tickets, and a spy wheel to translate documents.

Dr. John McCormack recounts the experiences he has had working as a veterinarian in Choctaw County, Alabama.

The daughter of a titled German woman and a Jewish attorney describes her life as a "half-breed" in Nazi Germany.

A memoir in which the author, stung by her father's death, searches out the history of her family, and the lives of other farmers and immigrant workers who populated New England's Merrimack Valley during the industrial textile age.

An anthology of autobiographical writings by thirty-one Southern authors, including Maya Angelou, Mark Twain, Kaye Gibbons, and Reynolds Price.

Scully recalls her childhood and teen years in the far western Alaskan frontier before and during World War II.

Ron Rozelle reconstructs his father's life as a superintendent in East Texas from the 1930s to the 1960s so that the rest of his family can discover what his father was like before he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Traces the lives and accomplishments of the extraordinary Mary Sherwood and her five children who played an important part in bringing great changes in higher education and voting rights for women, opportunities for government service, and awareness of the need to preserve the country's natural wonders.