James Lincoln Collier

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution, when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.

By rights young Daniel Arabus and his mother, slaves in Captain Iver's house in Stratford, Conn., should be free. But the Captain refuses to honor their agreement and instead sells Daniel on board a ship to the West Indies.

Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that shaped the life of Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief.

Examines the possible origins of jazz, its variety, greatness, and individual artists.

Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays' Rebellion begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against unfair taxation levied on them by the Boston government.

Presents a biography of American author Mark Twain, discussing his childhood and family, his work as a printer's apprentice, a riverboat pilot, a prospector, and a journalist, and looking at how his experiences provided him with inspiration to write his now classic novels.

Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that helped shape the life of the first president.

Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that shaped the life of the Civil War nurse who went on to found the American Red Cross.