Cultures of the past

About Author

Ruth Ashby is the author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, including Anne Frank: Young Diarist and Rosa Parks: Courageous Citizen. A former book editor, she teaches English at the Portledge School in Locust Valley, New York. Source: Ruth Ashby is a children's writer who focuses on nonfiction topics ranging from biology and paleontology to history and biography. She has also edited such volumes as Herstory: Women Who Changed the World and The Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Woman Homesteader. Herstory features short biographies of 120 of history's prominent women rulers, scientists, and athletes. Source

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Books in this Series

Elizabethan England

Ruth Ashby, Geoffrey Regan

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Examines the history, culture, religion, and social conditions of sixteenth-century England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

The Phoenicians

Elsa Marston, Gerhard Herm, Sabatino Moscati

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The Byzantine Empire

Elsa Marston, Robert Browning, Charles William Chadwick Oman

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Traces the history, society, culture, and lasting influences of the Byzantine Empire, which grew from the decaying Roman empire and ruled from Constantinople from the fourth to the end of the fifteenth century.

The ancient African Kingdom of Kush

Pamela F. Service

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Examines the history, culture, religion, daily life, and legends of the people of the northern African kingdom of Kush, located in the region known as Nubia, between Sudan and Egypt.