Eileen Lucas

A brief introduction to the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

The story of the 1957 desegregation of a Little Rock school includes a script for readers' theater.

Charles Babbage and Ada Byron met in 1833. He was a widowed forty-two-year-old scientist and inventor, who was trying to figure out how to get his Difference Engine built. She was the eighteen-year-old daughter of the poet Lord Byron and Lady Annabella Byron, whose marriage had disintegrated in Ada's youth. Through thoughtful narrative accompanied by direct quotes, readers will learn how in Babbage's plans for the Analytical Engine and Lovelace's...

"This book is about odd environments and places in relation to science."--

When Prudence Crandall opened a school for young girls in 1831, she didn't expect trouble. But that is just what she got when she allowed African American girls to attend. A Quaker and abolitionist, Prudence defied the prejudiced attitudes and violent actions of those around her and fought to keep her school open when few others would have dared.

During the lockdown of 2020, when it was decided that children would be out of school for an extended period of time and would be engaged in technology for months or years, I started wondering what contribution I could make to assist children to get a break from the computer. When I was raising the children (nieces, nephews, and my child), we had a dog named Max. He and the boys were inseparable. He was a loving, beautiful dog. I, therefore, decided...

Discusses the political and social aspects of the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages, as well as the repeal of that law with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment.