Nancy Whitelaw

A biography of the newspaper editor who crusaded against corruption, established the Pulitzer Prize, and founded the Columbia School of Journalism.

Traces the life of the Civil War nurse who cared for wounded soldiers and earned the title, "Angel of the Battlefield."

Best known today as the queen who funded the voyages of Columbus, Isabella and her husband, Ferdinand, joined forces to unify the Iberian Peninsula into the kingdom of Spain. A primary figure in the brutal Spanish Inquisition, Isabella was a complicated woman whose reign was not without controversy.

Presents the life and career of the admiral who was also "the grandmother of the computer age."

From the moment of her birth, Catherine de' Medici was immersed in the treacherous world of European politics. Orphaned as a newborn, she was entrusted to her uncle, Pope Clement VII, who arranged her marriage to the son of the French king. Sent to France at the age of fourteen, young Catherine found herself in a court divided by tensions within competing noble families. The accidental death of her husband Henry II left Catherine alone to try to control...