Retells the life of the legendary African American hero who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

Describes the life of the legendary steel-driving man who was born and who died with a hammer in his hand.

Picture-book biography of John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.

""The time has come for this Nation to fulfill its promise." John F. Kennedy was born one hundred years ago. As America's thirty-fifth president, he often took bold actions: establishing a peace corps and challenging Americans to land on the moon. But on civil rights, it took the urging and the example of other courageous people--leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson, and even students and children--to help him realize that the...

Learn about the song Amazing Grace.

"A picture book inspired by the true story of how the first international flight was an Englishman and a French man who rode in a balloon across the English Channel"--

Briefly tells the story of this nineteenth-century painter and naturalist who is most famous for his detailed paintings of birds.

Describes how the assassination of President Lincoln took place.

In the early 1900s, a wild little girl nicknamed Squirrel meets John Muir, later to become a famous naturalist, when he arrives at her parents' hotel in Yosemite Valley seeking work and knowledge about the natural world.

Publisher Annotation: John Hancock and Samuel Adams were an unlikely pair of troublemakers. Hancock was young and dashing. Adams was old and stodgy. But working together, they rallied the people of Boston against the unfair policies of Great Britain and inspired American resistance. And to King George, they became a royal pain. When the British army began marching toward Lexington and Concord, sending Hancock and Adams fleeing into the woods, the...