Presents the life and career of artist Maya Lin focusing on her childhood, education, and artistic creations. Profiles her greatest works, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and details the events leading to her induction in the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Provides a biography of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata discussing the leader's early life, political ideologies, role in the Mexican Revolution, and violent death. Includes a timeline and black-and-white photographs.
A biography of rock star Elvis Presley. Describes how his mother encouraged his love of music leading to a record deal with RCA and a movie career starting when he was twenty. Discusses how being drafted into the army interrupted his career. Comments on his purchase of Graceland, his family life, and his death.
Chronicles the life of Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, describing Che's early life, his revolutionary activities in Africa and Bolivia, and the circumstances surrounding his death in 1967.
A biography of England's Prince William, the oldest son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, and heir to the throne, discussing his birth and childhood, education, influences, and accomplishments, and including photographs and a time line.
Frederick Douglass stood up for what he believed in and that was freedom. He worked for the abolition of slavery; he attended the Seneca Falls Convention and became a supporter of women's right to vote; he led the recruiting effort for the 54th Massachusetts, the first all-Black Union combat unit in the Civil War; and he founded The North Star, the second Black newspaper published in America. Born in 1818, he was the most famous Black abolitionist and intellectual of the 19th century.
