Stephen Currie

Examines the basic concepts of junk food through the lens of the latest scientific studies and finding. Provides tools for evaluating conflicting and ever changing ideas.

Environmentalism has become a hot button political topic. When leadership teams create an impression, one way or the other, that the Earth is in trouble, we need to pay attention. This valuable resource presents simple facts about the history of environmentalism in America, and why it exists. It examines the science behind certain assertions, and teaches readers about new issues, and new solutions.

Details the living conditions of plantation slaves, examing house, field and artisan work; food and clothing; marriage; separation; resistance; leisure activities; and old age.

Discusses the childhood, soccer successes, fame, charitable works, and future options of Olympian Mia Hamm.

Discusses the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and its founder William Garrison, describing its role in the antislavery movement, its philosophy, reactions to it, and its legacy.

Describes the conditions, hardships, and horrors faced by soldiers in the trenches and on the battlefields of World War I.

Surveys the origins and events of the series of wars called crusades that lasted from 1095 to 1291.