A collective biography of important American women who fought for the female right to vote, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth.
A collection of short literary biographies covering the major American fiction writers of the first half of the twentieth century, including Jack London, Sherwood Anderson, and John Steinbeck.
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.
Contains profiles of ten nineteenth-century American literary authors, from Washington Irving to Stephen Crane, and assesses their work and its significance for American life and culture.
Profiles eight men and women whose artwork serves as visual documentation of critical events and cultural eras in American history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
