Russell Freedman

Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.

Was the Vietnam War a tragic mistake? Or was it, as President Ronald Reagan would claim, "a noble cause"? In an enthralling book, Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman provides a succinct account of perhaps the most puzzling and contentious of America s wars. Describing how a superpower caught up in Cold War politics became increasingly enmeshed in a conflict over 8,000 miles away, he then explainswhy twenty years later an exit was so difficult. In words...

Follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane.

Historical photographs with explanatory text present a picture of life in the American West from 1840 to the early 1900s.

A biography of the Oglala leader who relentlessly resisted the white man's attempt to take over Indian lands.

Through memoirs, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts, illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression, including middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, and others.

Text and excellent historical photographs describe these romantic figures. A true portrait of the real cowboys who worked during the years that cattle roamed the open range. Describes, in text and illustrations, the duties, clothes, equipment, and day-to-day life of the cowboys who flourished in the west from the 1860's to the 1890's.

Using the facts and myths of his own stories and the accounts of the time, presents the case for and against the truth of Marco Polo's great tales of exploration.