Overview :Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian isl... Read More
Overview :Between 1841 and 1865, some forty thousand children participated in the great overland journeys from the banks of the Missouri River to the ... Read More
Overview :The voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies' transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. This hi... Read More
Overview :Between 250,000 and 500,000 boy soldiers fought in the U.S. Civil War. Many more children were exposed to the war's ravages in their home to... Read More
Overview :In a companion volume to their highly acclaimed book Overcoming the Odds, Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith continue their longitudinal study... Read More
Overview :World War II was the first modern war in which more civilians than soldiers were killed or maimed: When it ended in August 1945, more than t... Read More
Overview :The people of Denmark managed to save almost their country's entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity - one... Read More
Overview :More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came th... Read More