Central Kansas Library System

Eighty-nine flags are illustrated and identified with accompanying text describing their significance in American history.

Profiles Afro-Americans who made important contributions to science despite racial prejudice and institutional barriers to black education and achievement.

Profiles in Canadian Literature is a wide-ranging series of essays on Canadian authors. Each profile acquaints the reader with the writer's work, providing insight into themes, techniques, and special characteristics, as well as a chronology of the author's life. Finally, there is a bibliography of primary works and criticism that suggests avenues for further study.

Provides accounts of ten significant twentieth-century inventions and the people behind them, including the Wright brothers and their airplane, Robert Goddard and his rocket, and Gordon Gould and his laser.

Relates the enterprises and discoveries of twelve explorers, including Vasco da Gama, Captain James Cook, and Roald Amundsen.

Profiles the lives and famous cases of eight American attorneys including Andrew Hamilton, John Adams, Belva Lockwood, Abraham Lincoln, Clarence Darrow, Robert Jackson, Joseph Welch, and Morris Dees.

Alphabetical articles profile the life and work of notable scientists and inventors from antiquity to the present, beginning with Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and concluding with the Wright Brothers.