Getting Around Brown is both the first history of school desegregation in Columbus, Ohio, and the first case study to explore the interplay of desegregation, business, and urban development in America.

The April 1945 journey of FDR's funeral train became a thousand-mile odyssey, fraught with heartbreak and scandal.

A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.

... 1928 , aged 47 years , the result of internal injuries received when run down by an auto- mobile , killing him instantly . The late Brother Walker leaves a widow and two children in Scotland to mourn his untimely death ... Gillon , William ...

Biography of Col. James Williams, 1740-1780, the highest ranking officer who died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) during the American Revolutionary War.

An account of the distribution of 28 cetacean species that are known to have occurred in the waters off north-west Europe.

The Encyclopedia will offer an interdisciplinary perspective into these and many other social problems that are a continuing concern in our lives, whether we confront them on a personal, local, regional, national, or global level.