Great lives

A collective biography of thirty-two founders and proponents of religions of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

Describes the life and achievements of the woman who worked to improve hospital conditions and make nursing an honorable profession.

Chronicles, the life, family background, political career, and assassination of the thirty-fifth president of the United States.

A brief account of Magellan's 1519-1522 voyage around the world, which proved beyond all doubt that the world was round.

Biographical portraits of twenty-nine individuals who fought for human rights, from Roger Williams and Thomas Paine to Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King.

Traces the life of a young Jewish girl who kept a diary during two years she and her family hid from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic.

A biography of the slain civil-rights leader.

Examines the life of the first African-American to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court.

A brief biography of one of music's greatest geniuses.

Follows the life of the strong-willed queen who brought new stability and vitality to England in the sixteenth century.