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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Sitting Bull, a Sioux chief, lived a life filled with difficulty and determination. He was alive during a time of great hardship for Native Americans in the western United States, when Native communities were being pushed from their homelands onto territory in the South. This is his remarkable story of staunch resistance and perseverance.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One of the most renowned names in history, Julius Caesar earned his reputation as a strict general, a resilient and resourceful thinker, and a determined dictator. This is the story of Caesar's life, accomplishments, and death, and the legacy of his name today.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and work of six artists of the Italian Renaissance whose works represent important innovations and achievements in painting, sculpture, and architecture. Included are Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
10) Mahatma Gandhi
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian political and spiritual leader who led his country to freedom from British rule through his policy of nonviolent resistance.
12) Adolf Hitler
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the struggling Austrian artist who rose from obscurity to power as the leader of the Nazi party and, later, the German nation and whose ambitions led the world to war.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Born the daughter of well-established poet Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace would change history as one of the first modern female mathematicians and the programmer of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. This is the story of her life, her amazing achievements, her death, and her footprint on history.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
True or False? Benjamin Banneker used a telescope and mathematics to predict a solar eclipse. True! In 1789, Banneker calculated when the moon would pass between the earth and sun. And he did it without any formal math or science training. As a young boy, he worked on the farm owned by his father, who was a freed slave in Maryland. He helped to survey and plot out the site for the U.S. capital city, Washington, D.C. He also published several almanacs...
18) Harriet Tubman
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Did you know that Harriet Tubman helped runaway slaves escape to freedom? She took them to Canada. Find out more in Harriet Tubman, a Historical Heroes book.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Briefly surveys the history of Africans and African Americans in leadership and profiles notable black leaders from the sixteenth century to the present, including Toussaint Louverture, Nelson Mandela, and Condoleezza Rice.
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