Sharon Sigmond Shebar Books
Pennsylvania
Surveys the history, geography, and economy of Pennsylvania and describes its important cities, government, and people.
Read MoreWhaling for glory!
Offers a brief history of whaling and describes the day-to-day activities on board a typical 19th-century whaling ship.
Read MoreThe Cardiff Giant
Briefly discusses the Cardiff Giant hoax in which people of upstate New York were fooled into believing that the petrified form of a giant human being had been uncovered from the ground on October...
Read MoreThe Bell witch
Traces the history of "Old Kate," the ghost or evil spirit that haunted the Bell family of Tennessee between 1817 and 1820.
Read MoreFranklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
A biography of the thirty-second President, the only one to be elected to a fourth term, who began the New Deal to counteract the effects of the Depression.
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