20th century

Draws on personal and professional correspondences to chronicle the life and legacy of politician and philanthropist Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Discusses the life and lasting legacy of politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, and discusses how his crusade for gay rights led to open hostility that ended in 1978 when he was assassinated by his San Francisco Board of Supervisors rival.

When his charming but irresponsible uncle comes to visit his small Kansas hometown, fourteen-year-old Les Ekhardt hopes to get tips from him about succeeding with girls, but he learns much more important lessons from his stodgy, predictable parents and friendships with a lesbian classmate and one of Uncle Ray's former girlfriends.

Collects more than three hundred economy-themed cartoons which were originally published in "The New Yorker" from 1925 to 2009.

Four young people in two families tell of their experience during World War I when the boys enlist and are sent to fight, Emma finishes school, and Muriel joins the suffrage movement.

In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.

Karl Shoemaker, starting his senior year in Lightsburg, Ohio, in 1973, vows to break out of the therapy group he has been forced to attend during school hours and become "normal.".

A story told in the alternating voices of a seventeen-year-old racist and a thirteen-year-old boy cast out of his home for being gay, whose violent encounter with each other has a lasting impact on their futures.

Recounts the experiences of six families and they communities as they struggle to survive the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Great Depression.

Examines the lives of the African-Americans activists who worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s--Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, John Lewis, Marion Barry, Bob Zellner, and Diane Nash--and discusses the impact their actions had on the civil rights movement, politics, and twentieth-century society.