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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

August 6, 2024/by Jim McCabe
Cover of Guardians of Liberty

Guardians of Liberty: Sam Adams and John Hancock by Olga Hall-Quest

August 5, 2024/by Jim McCabe
The Cover of Brothers: Black Soldiers in the Nam

BROTHERS: BLACK SOLDIERS IN THE NAM BY STANLEY GOFF & ROBERT SANDERS

August 1, 2024/by Jim McCabe
Cover of One Soldier

One Soldier by John H. Shook

October 6, 2022/by Jim McCabe
photo of Donald Duncan

The New Legions by Donald Duncan

October 5, 2022/by Jim McCabe
Cover showing Shirley Chisholm with victory signal

Shirley Chisholm by Susan Brownmiller

October 5, 2022/by Jim McCabe
images of men standing

Founding Fathers by Kenneth Umbreit

July 10, 2021/by Jim McCabe

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

July 8, 2021/by Jim McCabe
Cover of Before the Mayflower

Before the Mayflower-A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 by Lerone Bennett, Jr.

January 6, 2021/by Jim McCabe
Cover with a sketch of Carson

Sea and Earth: The Life of Rachel Carson

May 26, 2020/by Jim McCabe
Cover with Photo of Philip Randolph

Mr. Black Labor: The Story of A. Philip Randolph by Daniel S. Davis

May 25, 2020/by Jim McCabe
Book Cover with Burning Bus

Freedom Ride, Civil Rights and Non-Violent Resistance by James Peck

May 25, 2020/by Jim McCabe
Cover with cartoon of a Black man voting

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War by Henrietta Buckmaster

May 25, 2020/by Jim McCabe
Cover shows Bethune leading children up a hill

Mary McLeod Bethune

May 24, 2020/by Laura March
Cover showing a bombed out bridge

Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly by Margaret Bourke-White

May 24, 2020/by Jim McCabe
Book cover with photograph of Emile Roux

Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

May 23, 2020/by Jim McCabe
Cover with Abbott and paperboys

The Lonely Warrior: The Life and Times of Robert S. Abbott

May 22, 2020/by Laura March
Book Cover with Photo of Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony: The Woman Who Changed the Mind of a Nation by Rheta Childe Dorr

April 23, 2020/by Jim McCabe

He Wouldn’t Be King: The Story of Simon Bolivar by Nina Brown Baker

April 22, 2020/by Jim McCabe
Thurgood Marshall facing right

Thurgood Marshall: From His Early Years to Brown by Michael D. Davis and Hunter R. Clark

March 18, 2020/by Jim McCabe
Cover showing Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall: His Triumph in Brown, His Years on the Supreme Court

March 17, 2020/by Jim McCabe
A pianist on the cover of the Weary Blues

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

August 19, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Cover of Caroling Dusk

Caroling Dusk An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties

August 18, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Photo of James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson

August 18, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Cover of A Long Way From Home

A Long Way From Home by Claude McKay

August 18, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Cover of Home to Harlem

Home to Harlem by Claude McKay

August 17, 2019/by Jim McCabe
the book cover of the Black Napoleon by Percy Waxman

The Black Napoleon: The Story of Toussaint Loverture by Percy Waxman

August 16, 2019/by Jim McCabe
cover with photo of Diego Rivera

My Art, My Life, An Autobiography by Diego Rivera

August 16, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Addams and Activists on Deck of Ship on the Way to Europe

Peace and Bread in Time of War by Jane Addams

August 15, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Image of Geronimo

Geronimo by Jim Kjelgaard

August 15, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Book Cover Juarez as Young Man

Benito Juarez: Builder of a Nation by Emma Gelders Sterne (For Young Adults).

June 5, 2019/by Jim McCabe
image of James Madison

James Madison: Father of the Constitution by Alfred Steinberg

February 12, 2019/by Jim McCabe

Road to Huertgen Forest, Forest in Hell by Paul Boesch

February 11, 2019/by Jim McCabe

Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa

February 11, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Photo of 6 Female Journalists

No Woman’s World by Iris Carpenter

February 11, 2019/by Jim McCabe
cover showing a Japanese prison guard

Give Us This Day by Sidney Stewart

February 10, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Book Cover with Photographs of Frank Howley

Berlin Command by General Frank L. Howley

February 10, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Book Cover of Last Enemy

The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary

February 10, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Cover with captured U-505

U-505 by Daniel V. Gallery

February 10, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Cover with Soldier with Rifle

The Road to Stalingrad by Benno Zieser

February 9, 2019/by Jim McCabe
So Big by Edna Ferber

So Big by Edna Ferber

February 9, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Launching Plane at Kitty Hawk

The Wright Brothers by Fred C. Kelly

February 7, 2019/by Jim McCabe
Cover of the Wounded Don't Cry

The Wounded Don’t Cry by Quentin Reynolds

December 22, 2018/by Jim McCabe
Photo of Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa: Strong Man of the Revolution by Larry Harris

December 21, 2018/by Jim McCabe
Man and a Horse on Book Cover

The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela

December 20, 2018/by Jim McCabe
Book Cover Vietnam 1969

Vietnam 1969 Progress of Pacification, Prospects for Vietnamization by James G. Lowenstein & Richard M. Moose

December 20, 2018/by Jim McCabe
Marines on Patrol

U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Small Unit Action 1966 by Captain Francis J. “Bing” West Jr.

December 20, 2018/by Jim McCabe
Cover of Last Flight from Singapore

Last Flight from Singapore with Maps and Illustrations by Arthur G. Donahue

December 19, 2018/by Jim McCabe

The Mosquito Man: The Story of Ronald Ross by John Rowland

September 4, 2017/by Jim McCabe

The Penicillin Man: The Story of Alexander Fleming by John Rowland

September 4, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Photo of Two older African Americans

The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves by Benjamin Drew

September 1, 2017/by Jim McCabe

Flight to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad by Henrietta Buckmaster

August 31, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Book Cover with Text the Fire in the Flint

The Fire in the Flint by Walter F. White

August 31, 2017/by Jim McCabe

The Cossacks and The Raid by Leo Tolstoy with Maps

August 31, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Image of Cinque and Schooner in Background

The Long Black Schooner: The Voyage of the Amistad

August 31, 2017/by Jim McCabe
cover of Nemesis

Nemesis: Truman and Johnson in the Coils of War in Asia by Robert J. Donovan

August 31, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Cover of Labor's New Millions

Labor’s New Millions by Mary Heaton Vorse

August 31, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Cover of the Pullman Strike

The Pullman Strike by Rev. William H. Carwardine

August 30, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Cover of Walter Reuther biography

Walter Reuther by Fred J. Cook

August 30, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Debs Speaking to a Crowd

Eugene V. Debs: A Man Unafraid by McAlister Coleman

August 30, 2017/by Jim McCabe

Patrick Henry: Firebrand of the Revolution by Nardi Campion, Reading Level is 5.6

August 30, 2017/by Jim McCabe
title and small photo of Walter Reed

Vanquishing Yellow Fever by Edward F. Dolan

August 23, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Louis Pasteur by Mary June Burton

Louis Pasteur-Founder of Microbiology by Mary June Burton

August 22, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Jenner vaccinating a boy

Edward Jenner and Smallpox Vaccination by Irmengarde Eberle

August 21, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Image of Joseph Lister

Master Surgeon–A Biography of Joseph Lister by Lawrence Farmer

August 21, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Hitler and other Leaders Marching

The Mad Dog of Europe by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Albert Nesor

August 21, 2017/by Jim McCabe

The Curies and Radium by Elizabeth Rubin

August 20, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Koch at at a microscope

Robert Koch: Father of Bacteriology by David C. Knight

August 19, 2017/by Jim McCabe

Pioneers of Freedom by McAlister Coleman

August 16, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Cover with Image of Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday: From Errand Boy to Master Physicist by Harry Sootin

July 13, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Book Cover with Soldiers in Desert

Patrol–North Africa-1943 A Story of the Desert War by Fred Majdalany

July 12, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Book Cover with the Image of Dr. Salk

The Polio Man: The Story of Dr. Jonas Salk by John Rowland

July 12, 2017/by Jim McCabe

Serenade to the Big Bird with Maps and a Study Guide

July 11, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Cover with Rising Sun and Bayonet

Escape from Corregidor by Edgar D. Whitcomb

July 10, 2017/by Jim McCabe

Agent in Italy: A Memoir of a Spy in World War II with a Study Guide

June 30, 2017/by Jim McCabe

An Army of Amateurs

June 16, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Scene of crowd marching and title of Runaway Russia

Runaway Russia: An American Woman Reports on the Russian Revolution

June 15, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Photo of WEB DuBois

W.E.B. Du Bois: His Was the Voice by Emma Gelders Sterne (For Young Adults)

June 13, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Book Cover showing a valley

They Called it “Purple Heart Valley”-A Combat Chronicle of the War in Italy by Margaret Bourke-White

January 4, 2017/by Jim McCabe
Image of GIs Wading Ashore

From a Pulitzer-Prize Winning War Correspondent with Maps and a Study Guide

October 1, 2016/by Jim McCabe
Armed Soldiers Marching to the Right

Free ebook: Death is Incidental, A Story of Revolution in Mexico by Heath Bowman and Stirling Dickinson

July 1, 2016/by Jim McCabe
Wanted Poster on Book Cover

Free: Revolts, Resistance and Emancipation by Dorothy Sterling. Grade Level is 9.1

June 2, 2016/by Jim McCabe
Cover with Image of Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin, the First Civilized American by Phillips Russell

May 1, 2016/by Jim McCabe
BooK Cover with Photo of Edison Sitting

Thomas Edison: American Inventor by Ray Eldon Hiebert and Roselyn Hiebert

May 1, 2016/by Jim McCabe
Image of Tom Paine on book cover

Tom Paine-America’s Godfather by W. E. Woodward, Grade Level is 10.3

April 30, 2016/by Jim McCabe
Cover with Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt

Mrs. R: The Story of Eleanor Roosevelt by Alfred Steinberg

April 29, 2016/by Jim McCabe
Cover of Harlem, People, Power and Politics 1900-1950

Harlem: People, Power and Politics, 1900-1950 by Roi Ottley

April 1, 2016/by Jim McCabe
Image of Abraham Lincoln on Book Cover

Abraham Lincoln by James Daugherty

March 10, 2016/by Jim McCabe
Cover with photo of FDR

Franklin Roosevelt: The Early Years of the New Deal in America (Illustrated) by P. J. O’Brien

March 9, 2016/by Jim McCabe

The Patriot’s Progress by Henry Williamson

December 15, 2014/by Jim McCabe
Book cover with airplane

“WE” by Charles Lindbergh

December 15, 2014/by Jim McCabe

Toward the Flame: A War Diary by Hervey Allen

December 13, 2014/by Jim McCabe
Cover of the Legend of John Brown Top Half has an image of John Brown

The Legend of John Brown: A Biography and a History by Richard Owen Boyer

December 11, 2014/by Jim McCabe
With Title Mississippi Notebook

Mississippi Notebook: Freedom Summer June-August 1964 by Nicholas Von Hoffman

December 9, 2014/by Jim McCabe
Thaddeus Stevens: Militant democrat and fighter for Negro rights

Thaddeus Stevens: Militant democrat and fighter for Negro rights

September 15, 2014/by Jim McCabe

Why Reading Volume Matters: Read Anne E. Cunningham and Keith E. Stanovich

June 6, 2014/by Jim McCabe
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June 5, 2014/by Jim McCabe

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June 5, 2014/by Jim McCabe
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Kindles in Schools

June 4, 2014/by Jim McCabe

Please Donate to Support the Production of New Free Ebooks

June 3, 2014/by Jim McCabe