National Network for Equitable Library Service

Relates how one delegate to the Second Continental Congress battled bad weather and physical disabilities to arrive in Philadelphia in 1776, in time for the historic vote that led to independence.

In the 1930s, black singer Marian Anderson was not allowed to perform at Constitution Hall.

A biography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.

A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write