An examination of Catalonian peasants in the Middle Ages integrating archival evidence with medie...

1988 Newbery Medal Winner Abraham Lincoln stood out in a crowd as much for his wit and rollicking...

The struggle for voting rights was a pivotal event in the history of civil rights.For the fiftiet...

Many generations of American schoolchildren were taught that Columbus discovered America, and a h...

The story of an independent publisher of children's books.

From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account...

Starvation, hypothermia, and the loss of all hope-- at Valley Forge, George Washington and his tr...

When the Marquis de Lafayette ran off to join the American Revolution against the explicit orders...

As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Free...

Angel Island, off the coast of California, was the port of entry for Asian immigrants to the Unit...

Romeo and Juliet always use 'thou' to each other, but they are the only pair of lovers in Shakesp...

Photobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his ow...