Frank Carlson Library

Photographs and text, along with personal accounts of actual survivors tell the story of the great fire of 1871 in Chicago.

In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the staple food of the Irish people. Some people blamed the fairies, whom they believed lived in the Irish countryside. Other people called it "the will of God." Still others blamed the British government and landlords, who held power over Ireland and the Irish people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked...

Discusses the principal causes and events of World War I and considers what the outcome might have been for the participants and subsequent history had different decisions been made at crucial times before, during, and after the war.

This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s.

The autobiography of Rosa Parks, the Afro-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest led to a year long boycot of the bus system which ended with a federal injunction against segregation on buses.

Portrays the compelling partnership and marriage of John and Abigail Adams that helped shape the United States from a British colony to a fledgling democracy. This biography is based on letters between them during frequent separations.