Relates the life stories of thirty-six significant individuals who held important public offices and contributed to the development of the United States from the Declaration of Independence to the nuclear age. . .

A collection of biographical sketches of European and American painters from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Presents biographical sketches of twenty-nine athletes, describing their achievements, personalities, and backgrounds.

Traces the life of the pilot who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.

A biography of the nineteenth-century British monarch whose sixty-three year reign over one-quarter of the world's population covered a period of great industrial and social change.