biography

From the Boston Massacre through the Battle of Yorktown, traces the wartime activities of eight Revolutionary War heroes central to the American cause.

Profiles eight people who helped shape the popular image of the Wild West: Sitting Bull, Buffalo Bill, Jesse James, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Geronimo, Belle Starr, and Judge Roy Bean.

Provides a day-to-day chronology of events of the Civil War, describes the weapons used and includes brief biographical information.

Examines the life and times of the frontiersman whose many careers included Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, scout, and star of his own Wild West Show.

Presents a collection of biographical profiles of twenty-five notable men and women of the 1920s, including Louis Armstrong, Al Capone, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Mead, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more.

Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.

Describes the achievements of fourteen extraordinary women who lived in colonial America.

Rosa Park's life story reveals the deliberate choices she made that earned her the title "Mother to a Movement.".

A biography of the brilliant southern general who gained the nickname Stonewall by his stand at Bull Run during the Civil War.

Recounts the story of Hannah Goslar, a close friend of Anne Frank and one of the last to see her alive.