Traces the history of radio from Marconi's first transmission to future transmissions from the moon, and discusses the individual achievements of the men responsible for the rise of radio as an important industry and scientific tool.

Miracle of the air waves;: A history of radio,

Herron, Edward Albert

Messner

A biography of the woman who gave up the riches and comfort of her aristocratic birth to serve as a nurse in the Kentucky mountains where she established the Frontier Nursing Service.

Frontier Nurse, Mary Breckinridge

Katharine E. Wilkie

Elizabeth R. Moseley

Children's Books

A biography of the seventeenth-century French mathematician and philosopher whose revolutionary methods of reasoning greatly influenced future scientific thinking.

He Freed the Minds of Men: René Descartes

HOYT, Edwin Palmer

Brief biographies of thirteen Negro men and two women who were among the first explorers, trappers, soldiers, businessmen, cowboys, and settlers in the "early West."

Negroes in the early West,

Burt, Olive Woolley

Eagle of the Philippines: President Manuel Quezon

Elinor Goettel

A biography of the pioneer brain surgeon whose perfection of many surgical techniques made him foremost in his field.

Genius with a scalpel, Harvey Cushing

Denzel, Justin F.

A biography of the South American soldier who was one of the leaders in the struggle against Spanish domination in the early nineteenth-century.

Soldier of the Andes: José de San Martín

Rink, Paul

The draft riots, July 1863

History

Werstein, Irving

Americas

Harlem: The Story of a Changing Community.

Traces the history of Harlem from its settlement by the Dutch in the seventeenth century to the ghetto slum it has become in the twentieth century.

Harlem; the story of a changing community

B.E. Young

Discusses the history, tribal customs, arts, and way of life of New Mexico's Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache Indians.

Children of the Sun: The Pueblos, Navajos, and Apaches of New Mexico.

Maudie. Robinson

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