Shana Corey

Children dressed in monster costumes attend a community party, march in a Halloween parade, and go trick-or-treating.

A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army against the English, was burned at the stake as a heretic, and later canonized a saint.

New York City in the 1860s was a mess: crowded, disgusting, filled with garbage. You see, way back in 1860, there were no subways, just cobblestone streets. That is, until Alfred Ely Beach had the idea for a fan-powered train that would travel underground. On February 26, 1870, after fifty-eight days of drilling and painting and plastering, Beach unveiled his masterpiece-and throngs of visitors took turns swooshing down the track.