Overview :Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction Webster's American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Web... Read More
Overview :Through howling snowstorms and over treacherous sheets of ice, Matthew Henson and Robert Peary raced against other explorers and death itsel... Read More
Overview :Abigail Adams lived through the Revolutionary War and became the First Lady of the second president of the United States. Though women of he... Read More
Overview :Born a slave in Georgia in 1818, Bridget "Biddy" Mason learned to survive in a harsh world. Taken from her parents as a young child, Biddy g... Read More
Overview :For the first twenty-eight years of her life. Harriet Tubman lived as a slave on a southern plantation. Finally, with the help of a Quaker w... Read More
Overview :In 1791 plans for the new capital city, Washington, D.C., were in the works, but someone was needed to help with the surveying. Thomas Jeffe... Read More
Overview :Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York in 1797 or 1798. She never knew for sure which year she was born or even whether it was su... Read More