Who Was Ida B. Wells?
The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous black female journalist in ninete...
View full detailsThe story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous black female journalist in ninete...
View full detailsFilled with broken hearts and black ravens, Edgar Allan Poe’s ghastly tales have delighted readers for centuries. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was o...
View full detailsGet ready for the electrifying biography of Nikola Tesla--part creative genius, part mad scientist, and 100% innovator.When Nikola Tesla arrived in...
View full detailsOh, rats! It's time to take a deeper look at what caused the Black Death--the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history.While the coronavirus CO...
View full detailsHow did a New York printer become one of the most influential poets of all time? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library!Walt Whitman was a...
View full detailsLand ho! Discover what the Age of Exploration was all about in this wonderful addition to the bestselling Who HQ series!Before the fifteenth centur...
View full detailsWhether Congress is in session or not, here is an enthralling overview about the branch of our government closest to average Americans.Best-selling...
View full detailsFind out how these fun, stackable blocks became the most popular toys in the world.The LEGO toy company was founded in 1934 by a Danish carpenter w...
View full detailsThis baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners ushered in the biggest change in the history o...
View full detailsBorn a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an ...
View full detailsThe Berlin Wall finally came down in 1989. Now readers can find out why it was built in the first place; and what it meant for Berliners living on ...
View full detailsWho Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our New York Times best-selling series can find out now!At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thr...
View full detailsJoan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the ...
View full detailsBorn in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver en...
View full detailsOn October 29, 1929, life in the United States took a turn for the worst. The stock market – the system that controls money in America – plunged to...
View full detailsLike Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name--a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born i...
View full detailsThis fascinating addition to the best-selling Who Was...? series does not settle questions of theology. Instead, it presents young readers with a b...
View full detailsBorn in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonn...
View full detailsWhile other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop...
View full detailsNo one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom...
View full detailsA terrifying attack! On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a...
View full detailsIn 1978, Sally Ride, a PhD candidate at Standford University, responded to a newspaper ad to join the US astronaut program. She was accepted and be...
View full detailsIn 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights prote...
View full detailsIn her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young girl. But Hitler brought her childhood to an end and force...
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