Examines the life of the talented black athlete who broke the color barrier in major league baseball by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Today many children dream of playing professional baseball. Perhaps you are one of them. If you have good athletic skills and you work hard, your dream may be realized. But this wasn't always true for athletes in the first part of this century. More was required. A player had to be white. Black players--no...

Describes the life of the controversial heavyweight fighter, both in and out of the ring.

Describes how Squanto played an important role in making peace between his fellow Native Americans and the settlers at Plymouth, so that they could share the first feast of Thanksgiving.

Describes the life of the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull who led his people against the United States government troops and fought long and hard to protect the Indian's cherished way of life.

A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books.

A biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.