Tim Parlin Bücher

Harriet Tubman was a wily slave. Having narrowly escaped murder as a teenager when a slave overseer smacked her in the head with an iron weight, she fled from slavery by following the North Star to freedom. She helped more than three hundred slaves run away through the Underground Railroad, and was amazingly never caught. During the Civil War she acted as a spy and earned money by selling pies and root beer to the soldiers. This book is part of the History Making Biography Series, which uses documentary photographs, colorful cartoons, and interesting facts to make history come alive. It includes a timeline and a list of websites for further exploration on this great American. The series enriches the minds of young historians.

Robert E. Lee is considered by many to be the best soldier and general in history. He turned down the U.S. Army when they asked him to lead the Union forces, leading the Confederate forces instead. Although he and his army eventually lost the Civil War, he won many seemingly impossible battles, where he was outnumbered more than 2 to 1.