African-American serviceman Lanier Phillips was just eighteen years old when he was rescued from a sinking warship off the coast of Newfoundland in 1942 – a turn of events that transformed his life an
On April 10, 1912, the Titanic departed Southampton, England, on its first voyage across the Atlantic, carrying 2,240 passengers, 109 of them children. Introducing young readers to the ship that could
Nowadays most newcomers to North America arrive by airplane, but it wasn't always this way. Between 1928 and 1971, approximately 1.5 million people passed through Pier 21, on the cusp of new lives aft
In North America, the sea was long the dominion of men, but thanks to the inspiring example of Molly Kool, that all changed. Molly wasn’t trying to be an activist or a role model. She was just trying
A biography for young readers of a mysterious 19th-century journalist who, over 100 years ago, was breaking ground as one of the New Women who pursued a career in investigative journalism, hardly the
Named after a famous Indian king of long ago, the Ashoka network was created as an agency to help and offer support to people who have a dream – people who want to build on their ideas, accomplish thi
