biography

Profiles twenty women and girls who made notable contributions during the American Revolution as spies, soldiers, nurses, water carriers, fundraisers, writers, couriers, and more. Includes excerpts from primary source documents, contextualizing sidebars, images, and source notes.

"Tells the story of Washington, D.C., through the story of an African American man, Michael Shiner, who lived there from approximately 1804to 1880 and who kept a journal, excerpts of which are interspersed throughout the heavily illustrated text"--Provided by publisher.

A regiment of African American soldiers from Harlem journeys across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, inspiring a continent with their brand of jazz music.

Rosa Parks, "the lady who wouldn't give up her seat on the bus", is the mother of the Civil Rights Movement. She was also a nurturing mother to her family. Her courageous act on December 1, 1955, was just one moment in a life lived with great humility and decency. In this book her loved ones share their remembrances and reflections of Auntie Rosa to create a previously unpainted picture of the real woman behind the legend.

From the stifling world of suburbia in the 1950's to grand, historic dance theaters and the bright lights of the Broadway stage, this is the story of ballerina, Lee Wilson. She dared to dream she could grow up to be a star, and in 1962, fresh out of high school and only sixteen years old, she left her home and country to make a five-day journey across the Atlantic. Eight months later she made her professional dance debut in Monte Carlo at a command performance for Prince Rainer and Princess Grace.

Provides the stories of the people who built America and the people who sought to destroy it.

A radical reimaging of the immigrant memoir, this is the exhilarating story of every American outsider who finds his/her destiny in the margins.

In 2011, Glenn Kurtz's aunt re-discovered a postcard from her parents from their European vacation in the summer of 1938. They had gone to Europe for a six-week vacation with friends. They visited England, France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, passed through Germany, and made a side trip to their birthplace, the thriving, predominantly Jewish town of Nasielsk, Poland. They had no clue that their town would soon almost cease to exist. Fewer than one hundred of three thousand Jewish inhabitants would survive the destruction of Nasielsk by the Nazis in 1939. Unknowingly, Glenn Kurtz's grandfather had caught on 16mm film the only known moving images of these people. When the film was found, and then restored, Glenn Kurtz donated it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and began an odyssey to find out as much as he could about Nasielsk's lost Jewish population. When he met eighty-six year old Maurice Chandler, a thirteen-year-old boy in the film, Glenn realized he had created a bridge between the two worlds. Eventually Maurice helped him locate seven other survivors and their memories, together with the film, have become a lasting memorial to a vibrant town and its inhabitants who did not know they were on the brink of extinction.

Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 for Iran, assuring his pregnant fiancee that he'd be back in a few days, a week at most. But instead he would spend time in Iran's most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogations at the hands of a man he only knew by his smell: rosewater. The Bahari family was familiar with wars, coups, and revolutions. Well-known in Iran, imprisonment had come to several Bahari family members in the 1950's and the 1980's. This book presents insights into seventy years of Iranian regime change.

Adam Fortunate Eagle, an enrolled member of the Ojibwe Nation, was a young student at the Pipestone Indian Boarding School and offers a rare, firsthand account that disproves the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. He attended the school between 1935 and 1945 and has fond memories of his time there. He grew up to be a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz.