Examines the childhood and youth, education, law career, family life, and presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

Using a question-answer format, this chronological overview offers an informal introduction to American history and features annotated reading lists and biographical profiles.

Learn about the life of the great civil rights leader.

Examines Rosa Parks and the influences on her life that led to her arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, and discusses her continued involvement in the civil rights movement.

Anecdotes, sidebars, and a question-and-answer format provide information on the history of astronomy, the experience of astronaunts, the size of the universe, and the composition of stars and planets.

Did George Washington really chop down the cherry tree?How was James Madison a father if he didn't have any children?Where in the White House did William Howard Taft get stuck?HAIL TO THE CHIEF! The commander in chief is the leader of our nation the president of the United States. Here's your chance to learn about the presidents' inaugurations and important political achievements, as well as their nicknames, hobbies and even what kind of foods they did (and did not) eat. Discover how life in the White House has changed, and the diverse ways the First Ladies helped America.Best-selling author Kenneth C. Davis packs fan facts and coot quotes into his signature question-and-answer format. Detailed timelines make it easy to follow the major landmarks in American history. Presidential portraits and humorous illustrations make the design very inviting.Who knows? After you learn so much about the presidents, maybe you'll want to run for office someday, too!

Provides a variety of facts about the presidents of the United States in question and answer format.

Reprint. Originally published: 2001.

Product Description: From the ancients who charted the stars, to Jules Verne and Flash Gordon, to The X-Files, Apollo 13, and Armageddon, subjects engaging the heavens and outer space have intrigued people through the ages. And yet so many of us look up at the night sky and have to admit that we are totally in the dark when it comes to the most basic facts about the heavens...read more

Product Description: “History in Davis’s hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent—and memorable.” — San Francisco Chronicle Following on his New York Times bestsellers America’s Hidden History and Don’t Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country’s hidden history: the gritty first half of the 19th century, among the most tumultuous in the nation’s short life...read more