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The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era. Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, bu

Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine

"Melba: A Biography" is the first biography of Dame Nellie Melba, an Australian operatic soprano and one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era an

A revealing portrait of a brilliant and troubled figure – a daredevil of the sky Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of av

A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.