Russell Freedman

"In his signature eloquent prose, backed up by thorough research, Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students, the Scholls and a few friends formed the White Rose, a campaign of active resistance to Hitler and the Nazis. Risking imprisonment or even execution, the White Rose members distributed leaflets urging...

Marco Polo claimed to have seen rocks burn, heard sorcerers sing sharks to sleep, and met bandits who could conjure sandstorms at will. Many did not believe his tales, but saw him as a fake who saw nothing more than the conjurings of his own inventive mind.

An account of the Vietnam War describes how it began, why it was so difficult to end, and how its tragic legacy endures today.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.

A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.

Describes the building of the mighty Swedish warship the Vasa, how it sank not even a mile out of the harbor, the subsequent investigation, and how it was brought to the surface and restored more than three hundred years later.

Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.

Tells the life story of singer Marian Anderson, describing her famous 1939 Lincoln Memorial performance and explaining how she helped end segregation in the American arts after being refused the right to perform at Washington's Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin.

A Newbery Medalist ("Lincoln: A Photobiography") recounts Abraham Lincoln's brief friendship with African-American leader Frederick Douglass before and during the Civil War, narrated against the backdrop of race relations and politics. Includes 70 archival photographs.