Pocketful of Goobers

By Barbara Mitchell

Cornstalks and cannonballs

By Mitchell Barbara

Relates how the citizens of Lewes, Delaware, outwitted the British Navy during the War of 1812.

Tomahawks and trombones

By Mitchell Barbara

Related how a group of Moravians, living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, around 1755, used heavenly music to defeat the Delaware Indians.

Click

By Mitchell Barbara, Barbara Mitchell

Follows the life and career of the man who revolutionized photography by developing a camera simple enough for anyone to use.

Shoes for everyone

By Mitchell Barbara, Barbara Mitchell

A biography of the half-Dutch/half-black Surinamese man who, despite the hardships and prejudice he found in his new Massachusetts home, invented a shoe-lasting machine that revolutionized the shoe...

Pocketful of goobers

By Mitchell Barbara, Barbara Mitchell

Summary, Related the scientific efforts of George Washington Carver, especially his production of more than 300 uses for the peanut.

America, I hear you

By Mitchell Barbara

Focuses on the life and musical career of the composer who wrote a number of popular musicals and brought jazz into the realm of acceptable and respectable music.

Raggin'

By Mitchell Barbara, Barbara Mitchell

The life story of the black Texan who became a popular composer and sought to elevate ragtime to the level of classical music, only to have his talents fully recognized after his death.

Good morning, Mr. President

By Mitchell Barbara

Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian whose lifelong interest in Abraham Lincoln led to the publishing of a multi-volume biography which won the Pulitzer Prize.

Between two worlds

By Mitchell Barbara

A biography of the woman who was awarded both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature.