A biography of the famous American lawyer, orator, and author that covers such historic trials as his defense of John Scopes, Eugene V. Debs, and Leopold-Loeb.
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (Little House)
by William Anderson
Annie Oakley (Raintree Stories) (First biographies)
by Jan Gleiter and Kathleen Thompson
The life of the frontier woman who was famous for her skills as a sharpshooter which she demonstrated in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and other shows of the time.
"A complete visual package." --Booklist, starred reviewOn a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions specks of dust to form a duster--a savage storm--on America's high southern plains.The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow--people got lost in the gloom and suffocated... and that was just the beginning.Don Brown brings the Dirty Th...
Little Biographies of Big People: Sets 1 - 3 (Little Biographies of Big People)
Robert E. Lee (Historical American Biographies) (Legendary American Biographies)
by Mona Kerby
Describes the life of the famous Confederate general of the Civil War.
Slave Narratives (In Their Own Words (Franklin Watts))
by Elaine Landau
A biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian leader who led his country to freedom from British rule through his policy of nonviolent resistance.
This is the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was captured in the United States and sold into slavery in Louisiana. Drawing from primary source documents, including Northup's own memoir, this compelling book has a narrative that is packed with the action of Solomon's 12 - year odyssey as a slave and historical perspective on the human experience of buying and selling human beings. Period artwork is included to given even more historical context to this stunning st...
Andrew Johnson (History of the Civil War)
by Cathy East Dubowski and Thomas A Durwood
Surveys the political career and private life of the only president ever to be impeached.
Akhenaten and Tutankhamen (Leaders of the Ancient World)
by Zoe Lowery
A biography of the outlaw who, with his brother Frank, led a gang of bank and train robbers from the late 1860's through the 1870's.
Eric the Red (What's Their Story? S.) (What's Their Story?)
by Neil Grant
Part of a series of illustrated biographies aiming to introduce children to historical characters in a fun way. Each book tells the story of a remarkable person from the past, whose name and achievements have lived on far beyond their own time. Each of these international characters has a timeline and index for easy reference. The biographies link in with National Curriculum KS1 and KS2, and the titles have been chosen to cover a range of characters and to have both national and international ap...
The Travels of Juan Ponce de Leon (Explorers & Exploration)
by Debra Crisfield
El diario de Ana Frank (Juventud, #4) (Clasicos Agebe)
by Ana Frank
Queen Victoria and Nineteenth-Century England (Rulers and Their Times)
by Claire Price-Groff
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover))
by Dawn Adiletta