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Contains chapters entitled: "Show Us the Way to the Skies"; Heyday of the High-Flying Showmen; An Unlikely Recruit for War; Lifting Science Toward the Edge of Space; The Challenge and Joy of a Precarious Sport.

Contains chapters entitled: In Search of the "Infinite Highway"; The Scientific Visionaries; Learning to Ride the Wind; The Bishop's Inventive Sons; Countdown at Kill Devil Hills.

Contains chapters entitled: Rediscovering the Secrets of Kitty Hawk; The Great Show at Rheims; The High-Risk Pursuit of Gold and Glory; The Wrights vs. the World; Marshaling Aviation for War.

A collection of some of the most memorable moments caught by Associated Press photographers. PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Chronicles the history of the telephone and how its use has influenced our lives socially.

Vol.1 Stonewall Jackson:Destiny at Fort Sumter; Vol.2 The Monitor vs. The CSS Virginia:The Gray Ghost John Singleton Mosby; Vol.3 The 54th Massachusetts McClellan's Way; Vol.4 Andrew Gardner:War Photographer John Brown's War; Vol.5 The Battle of 1st Bull Run Pickett's Charge; Vol.6 Days of Darkness The Gettysburg Civilians West Point Classmates-Civil War Enemies.

Discusses the battle between The Monitor and The CSS Virginia and the outcome, as well as the development of guerrilla warfare developed by John Singleton Mosby.

Based of the novel "Across Five Aprils" by Irene HuntYoung Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man whenhe is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.