From New Orleans streets to recording studios and world stages, follow Louis Armstrong’s music, collaborations, public voice and enduring recorded life.
Follow Mary Shelley from a house of writers to Frankenstein, later novels and the exacting work of preserving a literary life through loss and change.
Follow Chien-Shiung Wu from a girls’ school in China to the collaborative cobalt-60 experiment that overturned a trusted symmetry in physics.
From Bengali poems and river journeys to Santiniketan, the Nobel Prize and a letter of protest, follow Tagore’s search for a more open education.
Follow Harriet Tubman from Maryland slavery to repeated rescue journeys, Civil War service, voting-rights advocacy and a lifetime of community care.
From Basra to Cairo, Ibn al-Haytham investigates light, challenges inherited explanations of sight and leaves an optical legacy built on questions, geometry and evidence.
An illustrated biography follows Wangari Maathai from science classrooms to women-led tree nurseries and Kenya’s struggles for public space, rights and environmental care.
From Edo actor prints to The Great Wave and late paintings, Hokusai’s illustrated biography follows a lifetime of observation, reinvention and shared craft.
A 24-page illustrated biography follows Marie Curie from Warsaw to Paris, through radioactivity research, family, loss, teaching and wartime radiography.
A 20-page illustrated retelling of Amaterasu and the Heavenly Rock Cave, following the Kojiki and distinguishing sacred tradition from history.
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