History

A young girl's real-life response to Michelle Obama's portrait opens into a story about art, possibility, and being seen.

Eleanor Roosevelt emerges as a restless, outspoken public figure who helped reshape what leadership could look like.

A school bus carries children through Rosa Parks's story and the wider history of Montgomery's bus boycott.

As Lillian climbs a hill to vote, the story traces generations of Black American struggle and progress around the ballot.

Poetic text and collage bring Fannie Lou Hamer's life, courage, and civil-rights activism into view for young readers.

Harvey Milk and Gilbert Baker's collaboration around the rainbow flag becomes an inviting introduction to pride, protest, and belonging.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and language are distilled into a picture book built around the power of his words.

Art and text together introduce Arturo Schomburg and his lifelong work collecting Black history the world tried to erase.

This lyrical historical picture book centers the weekly gathering place where enslaved Africans in New Orleans sustained culture and community.

This adaptation introduces the Black women mathematicians whose work helped launch the space race.