Profiles Rosa Parks, who, in 1955 Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, and thereby sparked the bus boycott that made Martin Luther King, Jr., famous and helped end the Jim Crow laws.
A biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, a man who gave up his successful law practice and dedicated his life to helping free the people of India from British rule through a program of peaceful resistance.
A biography of the man who was elected to the office of presidency four times and provided inspired leadership during the Depression and later in the face of the Nazi menace.
Provides an account of the disaster that occurred on December 6, 1917, when two ships carrying munitions and relief supplies to Europe collided, causing an explosion that leveled the towns of Halifax and Dartmouth and resulted in the deaths of nearly two thousand people.
the Green Mountain boys and Vermont's path to statehood
Raabe, Emily
2002
Explores the life and times of American patriot Ethan Allen--by some accounts a hero and by others a traitor--discussing his efforts, along with his brothers and the Green Mountain Boys, to keep the Hampshire Grants and Vermont independent.
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
Presents three hundred full-color photographs and archival illustrations that profiles fifty Americans in history including Pocahontas and Sacajawea, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and many more.
