Jean Lee Latham

In graphic novel format, tells the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

Sam Houston was one of the most colorful and legendary figures of American history. During his life he held an astonishing range of high positions: governor of two states (Tennessee and Texas), congressman (Tennessee), senator (Texas), and president of the Republic of Texas for most of its period of independence. He was an ardent expansionist who helped to make "manifest destiny" a reality, and more than any other individual, he was responsible for Texas's entry into the. United States. But Houston was a complex man whose life was marked by failures and despair. He had a lifelong alcohol problem, which probably caused the rapid dissolution of his first marriage, a scandal that forced him to resign the governorship of Tennessee. Following that disgrace, Houston fled into Indian Territory and oblivion. After years of wandering in the wilderness, he came to Texas and political rebirth. Houston's military fame, forged in the War of 1812. Brought him to the attention of his commanding general, Andrew Jackson, who made Houston his protege and nurtured Houston's military and political career. In Texas, Houston's fellow settlers, determined to break free from Mexico, chose him to command the Texas Army. After a series of tactical retreats, Houston won a decisive victory at San Jacinto, crushing the army of Mexican General Santa Anna and guaranteeing Texas's independence. But even Houston's own officers. Quarreled over his victory and how much credit Houston deserved for it. As governor of Texas in 1861, Houston, fiercely pro-Union, refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy when Texas joined the new Southern nation, and he was forced from office. He died in 1863, a bloody war raging as he had predicted it would following secession. This is a vivid and exciting biography of one of the giants of nineteenth-century America.

In this book, the largely unknown and frequently forgotten Nathaniel Bowditch comes to life in a brilliant portrait of his life. Readable for all ages, the book begins as the Bowditch family moves back to Salem, Massachusetts. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch follows Nathaniel Bowditch as he grows older and steadily more brilliant in mathematics and sciences, teaching himself by candle light and doing amazing things like learning Latin by himself. This book follows Bowditch's life through from a very young child to a fully grown and aging man. Although written like a novel and can read like fiction, the events of his life as represented in this book are accurate.

A biography of the Swedish-American engineer credited with over 2000 inventions as well as the design and construction of several types of boats. History remembers him for the construction of the Monitor, the little ironclad warship that held its own against the Merrimack.

The life of a laborer's son who attained his dream of becoming a British Navy Captain in a day when officers came only from the upper class.

A brief biography of the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code, who planned from early childhood to be a painter of great historical pictures but first won recognition as a portrait painter.

While looking for his blue ball, Tabbit finds his yellow duck, red shoe, and other missing articles.

From the dust cover of the 1961 edition: The famous story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves, one of the best-known tales from the Arabian Nights. As the story unfolds, Ali Baba and his wife, although kind and good, are very poor while Ali's brother Cassim, who is lazy and greedy, is very rich...

A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks.

Adventures of the piratical Elizabethan mariner who contributed enormously to the growth of sixteenth-century English sea power.

Wa O'ka could run the fastest of the Dakota Indians, shoot the straightest arrow and ride the furthest, but one thing he did not have was wealth. He lived in the smallest teepee; he had no piles of deerskins or buffalo hides and no strings of horses. How, then, could he hope to win the hand of the beautiful Starry Night, daughter of the chief?

A biography of the man who rose from debt to amass a small fortune, and became the driving force behind the successful laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.

A biography of the West Point graduate who learned civil engineering "from the ground up" and supervised the completion of the Panama Canal.

A biography of the West Point graduate who learned civil engineering "from the ground up" and supervised the completion of the Panama Canal.

A brief biography of the first admiral of the United States Navy.

A squeaking gate causes a dog, a bird, and a cat all to make noise which disturbs a man and his wife. A story to be real aloud with children providing the noises such as the squeak of the gate, the bark of the dog, or the man's snoring.

A biography of the marine biologist and nature writer well-known for her campaign against the careless use of chemicals.

Describes the discovery and exploration of the river which supplies water and electric power to the Panama Canal, and tells of the problems of construction, development, and operation of the Panama Railroad and the Panama Canal.