Describes the history and practice of slavery, particularly the African slave trade--its origins, growth, and demise from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Describes the economic and environmental conditions that led to the Great Depression and the horrific dust storms that drove people from their homes westward during the 1930s.

Chronicles the hardships faced by explorers trying to reach theNorth Pole, focusing on Peary and Henson's successful attempt in

Discusses the potato famine that devastated Ireland in the nineteenth century and led to a widespread immigration to the United States.

Describes the development of the Apollo spacecraft which succeeded in landing men on the moon in 1969.

Discusses the forced internment of Japanese-Americans in camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II.

Presents an overview of the history of the Navajo Indians, with a detailed account of how the United States Government, represented by Kit Carson, forced them on a 300-mile walk from their homeland in the Southwest to a prison camp at Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, in 1864, and their eventual return home after the United States-Navajo Treaty of 1868.

An account of the five years that English naturalist Charles Darwin spent traveling around the world on the HMS Beagle, a voyagethat led him to develop his theory of the evolution of the species.

Describes the voyages of exploration made by the renowned eighteenth-century navigator.

Surveys the various attempts to climb Mount Everest and gives adetailed account of the successful climb made by Hillary and Tenzing.