The Many Lives of Andrew Carnegie (1997) Ten Queens: A Portrait of Women of Power (1998) Food (1998) Witches and Witch-Hunts: A History of Persecution (1999) Driven from the Land (1999) Carl Sandburg: A Biography (1999) They Came in Chains: the Story of the Slave Ships (2000) Piracy & Plunder: A Murderous Business (2001) Captain James Cook: Three Times Around the World (Great Explorations) (2001) Robert E. Peary: To the Top of the World (2001) Ferdinand Magellan (2001) Bound for America (2001) The Trail of Tears: The Story of the Cherokee Removal (Great Journeys) (2001) Case Closed (2001) Great Explorations (2001) Ten Kings: and the Worlds they Ruled (2002) Walt Whitman: A Biography (2002) There Comes a Time: The Struggle for Civil Rights (2001) Day the Sky Fell (2002) Hour of Freedom, by Milton Meltzer and Marc Nadel (2003) The Cotton Gin (Great Inventions) (2003) The Printing Press (2003) Edgar Allan Poe: A Biography (2003) Francisco Pizarro: The Conquest of Peru (Great Explorations) 2004) Hear That Whistle Blow!: How the Railroad Changed the World (2004) Emily Dickinson (2004) Henry David Thoreau: A Biography (2006) Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography (2006) Herman Melville: A Biography (2006) Albert Einstein: A Biography (2007) Willa Cather (2007) Up Close: John Steinbeck (2008) Lincoln, in his own words, by Stephen Alcorn and Milton Meltzer (2008) John Steinbeck: a twentieth-century life (2008) Fiction The Underground Man (1972) Tough Times (2007) Notes References External links Guide to the Milton Meltzer Papers 1955–1973, Special Collections, University of Oregon — with biographical notes "'It Was a Wildly Exciting Time': Milton Meltzer Remembers the New Deal's Federal Theatre Project" at History Matters — audiobook including the Wilder speech by Meltzer Milton Meltzer at The Worcester Writers Project Milton Meltzer at Bookrags 20th-century American historians 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of the United States Jewish American historians American non-fiction children's writers Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal winners Carter G. Woodson Book Award winners University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Columbia University alumni American male non-fiction writers Historians from Massachusetts Writers from Worcester, Massachusetts Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Deaths from esophageal cancer 1915 births 2009 deaths American military personnel of World War II American non-commissioned personnel