Soviet Leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, 1992
International Terrorists, 1993
Hustlers and Hoaxers, 1993
Charismatic Cult Leaders, 1994
Hatemongers and Demagogues, 1994
Say it With Music: A Story about Irving Berlin, 1994
Rocket Man: The Story of Robert Goddard, 1995
Writer of the Plains: A Story about Willa Cather, 1996
Lewis and Clark, 1997
Wounded Knee and the End of the Plains Indian Wars, 1997
Legendary Labor Leaders, 1998
Innovators: Communications, 1998
Utopian Visionaries, 1998
Mary Cassatt: Portrait of an American Impressionist, 1998
John Brown, 1999
Life Among the Vikings, 1999
Building History: The Transcontinental Railroad, 1999
Life in Ancient Egypt, 2000
Daniel Boone, 2000
Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction, 2000
J. Edgar Hoover, 2001
Life in Communist Russia, 2001
Raoul Wallenberg, 2001
Eyewitness History: The Roaring Twenties, 2001 (revised edition, 2007)
The Loch Ness Monster, 2002
Library in a Book: Hate Crimes, 2003 (revised edition, 2009)
Understanding Beowulf, 2003
The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, 2003
U.S. Armed Forces: The U.S. Navy, 2004
Women of the French Revolution, 2004
Adolf Eichmann, 2005
Clay v. United States, 2005
Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire, 2005
The Devil, 2006
P.T. Barnum, 2008
The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, 2008
District of Columbia v. Heller, 2009
Library in a Book: Welfare and Welfare Reform, 2009
The Battle of Britain, 2015
Big Business: Inside the Coal Industry, 2016
World War I Aftermath, 2016
The Christmas Truce, 2016
Inside the Tobacco Industry, 2017
The Battle of Antietam, 2017
The Battle of Gettysburg, 2017
The 2016 Presidential Election, 2018
Rosalind Franklin, DNA Discoverer, 2018
Famous Ships: The Mayflower Story, 2018
How Slaves Built America, 2019
Race and College Sports, 2019
American Crime: The Manson Family Murders, 2019
Investigating the D.B. Cooper Hijacking, 2019
Jackie Robinson Breaks Barriers, 2019
Art Scene: The Art of Anime and Manga, 2020
Sherman’s March to the Sea, 2020
Adidas, 2023
Afghanistan, 2023
Video Games: Epic Games, 2023
Video Games: Sony, 2023
American Crime
The Unabomber, 2023
Serial Killers: John Wayne Gacy, 2025
A&E Biographies
Jesse Owens, 1998;
Legends of Dracula, 1998;
John Glenn, 1999;
Jack London, 2000;
Cleopatra: Queen of Egypt, 1999;
Edgar Allan Poe, 2000;
Benjamin Franklin, 2001;
Vladimir Putin, 2005;
Pope Benedict, 2006.
Tom Streissguth.
An editor, teacher, web designer, and book author, Tom Streissguth has written more than one hundred books for young readers, covering subjects such as history, geography, current events, and media. The first novella in his ten-part fiction series, Heroes in the Dark, was published in April, 2026.
In 2017 he founded The Archive of American Journalism to publish the little-known, hard-to-find writings of major American writers such as H.L. Mencken, Nellie Bly, Stephen Crane, and Ray Stannard Baker. More than ten thousand of these pieces are now available on the company’s website, and ten books of articles have been published under The Archive imprint.
Also by Tom Streissguith