Susan Goldman Rubin

Explores the history and culture of a group of African American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, offering details on the community and their traditions.

Provides a glimpse of life during World War II in both the Netherlands and the United States through the correspondence of Anne Frank and her Iowa pen pals.

A high-action portrait of the infamous historical pirate who pursued high-seas ambitions as a youth before settling down in New Orleans. Describes how he became a respected businessman, made pivotal contributions to the War of 1812 and exposed a British invasion plot.

Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.

A little cat pinned with a star, a Nazi concentration camp and an opera production. This is the story of one girl's coming of age in Terezin

An account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.

In this distinctive volume, acclaimed biographer Susan Goldman Rubin traces the events that shaped the Wyeths' art, as well as how each generation influenced the other, while the crisp design beautifully showcases the full-color reproductions of the works that have made the Wyeth family legendary.

"In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Although known as Brown v. Board of Education, the ruling applied not just to the case of Linda Carol Brown, an African American third grader refused entry to an all-white Topeka, Kansas school, but to cases involving children in South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and Washington, DC"--Dust jacket flap.

Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, who became internationally famous for designing some of the most dramatic buildings of the twentieth century.