A biography of the farm boy whose desire to tinker rather than do chores led to the design of the horseless carriage that eventually made him a billionaire.
A biography of the Nobel prize-winning physicist who designed the first atomic piles, produced the first nuclear chain reaction, and aided in the development of the atomic bomb.
A biography of the senator who served as attorney general under his brother's administration and was assassinated during his own Presidential Campaign in 1968.
A biography of the free-born black man who, as a self-taught mathematician and astronomer, helped survey the site of the Nation's Capitol and published several popular almanacs.
Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.
A biography of the Scottish immigrant barrel-maker whose side line detective work developed into the oldest and most famous detective agency in the United States.