Biography

8th Grade History. Use this tool to emphasize Black History Month (February). The book contains an overview of black church history, including thirteen biographical sketches of leading black Christians.

A journey of faith through mental illness. "I began writing the book about my journey of faith through my son Jonathan’s mental illness shortly after his death in 2013. I could not get any further than the first paragraph of the foreword. Each year...

"Lewis Minor Coleman" by Rev. Dr. J. L. Burrows "Randolph Fairfax" by Rev. Dr. Phillip Slaughter "George William Peterkin" by Rev. Dr. Robert Edward Lee Strider Foreward by Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg "Their lives are a treasure for anyone seeking a good role...

“The life and ministry of John Jasper – the extraordinary preacher of the 19th-century South, who labored not for civil rights or political activism, but for Christ. Crowds of all races gathered to hear this slave preach!Jasper began to...

Minor based this brief history of the 16th president on an array of testimony from previous biographers and men who knew Lincoln personally. He challenges commonly-accepted perceptions of the martyred president.

The story of George Washington is the story of American independence, and this biography illustrates that perfectly. War in the Colonies is the 2nd volume of The Life of George Washington written by Revolutionary war hero and...

The Life of George Washington, Volumes 1-5, was published by John Marshall between 1804 and 1807. Marshall was uniquely suited to write this biography of our first President. He served under General Washington in the American Revolution, and after the...

The main text of this book is “A Life of General Robert E. Lee” by John Eston Cooke, originally published in 1876. As you will read in the introduction, Cooke actually submitted his manuscript to Lee himself for approval, and it was...

This two-part volume includes: Part One: The Life of Christopher Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time by Edward Everett Hale, originally published in 1892. It was in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of...

Originally published in 1838, Able and Mighty Men features the biographies of every man who signed the Declaration of Independence, as well as George Washington and Patrick Henry. The author, L. Carroll Judson, knew or met almost every single man in...

Among the Cree and Salteaux Indians By Canoe and Dogtrain is the story of a Wesleyan missionary to the Indians near Lake Winnipeg, in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba. In the latter half of the 1800s this was a howling wilderness,...