Explains the historical background and events of the Salem witch trails.

Presents the conception, design, and construction of the Statue of Liberty.

Cartoons and facts combine to explain what it was like to be a cabin boy on a whaling ship in 1819, discussing the realities of life aboard ship, the catching and processing of the whale, being shipwrecked, and coming home again.

Takes the reader through a typical town in ancient Egypt around 1200 B.C., visiting the different areas, major buildings, and describing how the people lived.

A humorous account of how a British thief would have been punished in the eighteenth century by being sent to Australia in 1785.

Get ready...it's the 1920s, and more and more women around the world are being given the right to vote. But women have not always had it so good. Let your great aunt Edith and her cousin Mabel tell you what it was like to be a suffragist.

What is it like to live as a lion? Experience the life cycle of this animal through its own eyes!

Traces the history of the samurai castles of medieval Japan with information on the role of samurai, shogun, and women in feudal Japanese society, on religious beliefs, and on arms and armor of the period.