Explores the different forms of Renaissance art, such as sculptures, paintings, and drawings, and discusses the history and artists behind them

Presents information about the period in European history between the mid-1300s and the early 1600s, including topics such as the rise of monarchies, science during the Renaissance, and Martin Luther's role in the Protestant Reformation

An overview of the philosophy, inventions, art, government, religion, and daily life of the Renaissance

A description of the religious controversies of the Renaissance and Reformation with a focus on what life was like for ordinary people, both Catholic and Protestant

Describes the life and work of Leonardo Da Vinci, an artist, sculptor, engineer, architect, and scientist

Explores the scientific studies, experiments, and observations of this world-renowned artist and scientist of the fifteenth century through a review of the writings, notes, and sketches left behind in his vast collection of notebooks

Describes the social and economic structure of country life during the New Kingdom period, about 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE, of ancient Egypt, including the distinctive roles of men and women and what it was like to be a child in a peasant community

Overview of the African American cultural movement that began in the 1920s and was centered in Harlem, New York

"Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it....