Books in A Discovery Biography series

A biography of the Black educator and organizer of Tuskegee Institute who spent his life working for equality for the people of his race.

Biography of the woman who became famous as a nurse to wounded soldiers during the Civil War, and who later founded the American Red Cross.

A biography of the first woman doctor in the United States, who worked in England and America to open the field of medicine to women

Biography of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, Indian chief, trader, gold seeker, innkeeper, and rancher who discovered a pass in the Sierra Nevadas which bears his name

A brief biography of the frontier hero who first explored Kentucky and later opened passages to the West.

Traces the life of the nineteenth-century American social reformer and surveys her major accomplishments

An easy-to-read biography of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the sixteenth president of the United States

A biography of Abigail Smith, who became the wife of the second president of the United States and the mother of the sixth

A brief account of Sam Houston who served as a congressman and governor of Tennessee before his association with Texas began

A biography of the marine biologist and nature writer well-known for her campaign against the careless use of chemicals.

A biography of the blind and deaf woman who rose above her physical disabilities to international renown and who helped other handicapped persons to live fuller lives.

A biography of the President who preserved the American Union during the Civil War