Traces the history of slavery in the United States, focusing on the abolition movement and the final steps that freed an enslaved people.

Discusses the age-old origins of genocide, and recounts the destruction of the Native Americans, the massacre of the Armenians, the Ukrainian famine, the murder of Jews and others in the…

Original edition published as African mythology in 2003 –T.p. verso.

Examines the Warsaw ghetto uprising, including the roots of the resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, stories from the participants in the uprising, how the battle ended, and how the small…

As Adolf Hitler’s control over Germany became absolute, those Jews who could not run from the Nazis were forced into hiding. Readers will experience the harrowing first-hand narratives of those…

Learn about the geography, the history, the people, the government, and the business of the state of Texas. –Provided by publisher.

In California during the Gold Rush, Rosabel and Sophie become friends because they are both outsiders. Rosabel has been given her freedom but her mother is a runaway slave. Rosabel…