Profiles

Describes the lives and accomplishments of six famous women aviators: Harriet Quimby, Bessie Coleman, Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Jacqueline Cochran.

Examines the various contributions of eleven first ladies including Dolley Madison, Mary Lincoln, Nellie Taft, Florence Harding, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Hillary Clinton.

Profiles people who have been influential in the environmental movement: John Muir, Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling, Rosalie Edge, Aldo Leopold, Olaus and Margaret Murie, Rachel Carson, David Brower, and Gaylord Nelson.

Presents the life of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, first woman Prime Minister to lead a major Western nation.

Examines the lives of various contemporary terrorist leaders and the violent tactics of such groups as the Irish Republican Army, the Baader Meinhof gang, and the Hezbollah.

Profiles nine journalists whose work influenced the course of history: Elijah Lovejoy, George Brown, Horace Greeley, William Randolph Hearst, Ida Tarbell, Alfred Harmsworth, Edward R. Murrow, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein.

A collection of biographies on famous civil rights workers, including Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, Andrew Young, and Malcolm X.

Discusses various leaders of religious groups and cults.