Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: Their Parents, Nine Children and Royal Legacy
Explore Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s parents, their nine children, their marriage, and Victoria’s role during her reign from 1837 to 1901.
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Jack Black: The Life of London’s Famous Victorian Rat-Catcher
Meet Jack Black, Victorian London’s flamboyant rat-catcher. Discover his life, scarlet waistcoat, dangerous work and surprising role in breeding pet rats.
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Abraham Lincoln: From His Early Life to His Death
Abraham Lincoln’s life began in a Kentucky log cabin and ended in a Washington boarding house after an assassin’s attack. Between those two places, he became a lawyer, a husband and father, and the sixteenth president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and helped turn the struggle to preserve…
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Jesus Christ: His Life, Teachings and Historical World
Explore the life of Jesus Christ, his teachings, crucifixion and legacy, with a clear guide to the historical evidence and Christian belief.
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Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life, Reign and Final Days
Explore Queen Elizabeth II’s childhood, marriage, coronation, 70-year reign, final days, and death, with six historical photographs and documented sources.
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Edmund I: England’s Second King, His Family and Violent Death
Meet Edmund I, England’s second king: his struggle to reunite the kingdom, wives and sons, laws, and violent death at Pucklechurch in 946.
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Æthelstan: The First King of England and the Making of a Kingdom
Discover how Æthelstan united England in 927, defended his kingdom at Brunanburh, and built on the legacy of Alfred the Great.
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Almanzo Wilder: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Husband
Almanzo Wilder is often introduced as Laura Ingalls Wilder’s husband. Yet his own life stretched from a farm in northern New York to a homestead in Dakota Territory and, finally, a lasting home in the Missouri Ozarks. He was a farmer and father whose childhood memories became Farmer Boy, and whose adult years included illness,…
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Nikola Tesla: His Life, Inventions, and Extraordinary Legacy
Nikola Tesla helped shape the electrical world we live in. His work on alternating-current motors and power systems made him one of the most influential inventors of his age. Yet his life also included failed ventures, financial uncertainty, and ambitious dreams that remained unfinished. Behind the familiar portrait was an immigrant engineer whose achievements deserve…
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Her Life, Marriage, and Children
Long before Laura Ingalls Wilder became a familiar name on bookshelves, she was a daughter, teacher, farmer, wife, and mother. Her life crossed a remarkable span of American history, from a Wisconsin log cabin in 1867 to the middle of the twentieth century. The photographs that survive bring us closer to the woman behind the…
