A topically organized narrative locates vital personalities and concepts in the politics and art of the period and relates them to contemporary experience.
In the late fifties and early sixties, Govan Mbeki was a central figure in the African National Congress and director of the ANC campaigns from underground. Born of a chief and the daughter of a Methodist minister in the Transkei of South Africa in 1910, he worked as a teacher, journalist, and tireless labor organizer in a lifetime of protest ......
The core of Larks is rural and mythic and true, existential and domestic, tender while full of sharp grief and documentation. Circling genealogies of silence and harm in a southern family, Larks centers on the relationship and memories of three sisters and Ovid's telling of Philomel. In a landscape inhabited as much by farm animals (cows, goats, ......
In Land Hunger, Mansel G. Blackford explores the central role of land use in the experiences of Native Americans, African Americans, and Euro Americans as the new nation expanded westward from Ohio to the Oregon Country. Blackford emphasizes how people adapted to new and changed environments and focuses on key themes related to environmental and ......
In Land Hunger, Mansel G. Blackford explores the central role of land use in the experiences of Native Americans, African Americans, and Euro Americans as the new nation expanded westward from Ohio to the Oregon Country. Blackford emphasizes how people adapted to new and changed environments and focuses on key themes related to environmental and ......
Kubitschek was one of the most important political leaders of Brazil during the twentieth century. As president, he pushed decisively for the industrialization of the largest of the Latin American nations. He also provided his country with the most democratic regime it had ever experienced. His leadership stimulated a flowering of Brazilian ......
Judith Resnik didn't grow up dreaming of space, but when NASA opened its doors to women astronauts in the late 1970s, she stepped forward-and soared. One of the first six women ever accepted into NASA's space shuttle astronaut-training program, Resnik brought her sharp mind, determination, and creativity to a field that had long been closed to ......
Judith Resnik didn't grow up dreaming of space, but when NASA opened its doors to women astronauts in the late 1970s, she stepped forward-and soared. One of the first six women ever accepted into NASA's space shuttle astronaut-training program, Resnik brought her sharp mind, determination, and creativity to a field that had long been closed to ......
As part of our Biographies for Young Readers series for middle-grade readers, this book explains who Jane Addams was and why she caused such a stir in the United States and worldwide. The story follows Addams from her first realization of the unfairness that limited the lives, livelihoods, and health of disadvantaged people in the late 1800s to ......
