Based primarily on decades of research by Harry Henderson (co author of A History of African American Artists from 1792 to the Present), this fresh look at Edmonia Lewis's life and art discusses how she helped shape today's world. Revealing the mystery of her final days and more essential facts and sources than ever before collected and published, it includes more than 100,000 words, 50 illustrations (12 in color), 800 hyperlinked notes, a bibliography, and a catalog of more than 100 works with notes on more than twenty museums that collect her work. Many e- readers have a "find" function that will locate names and other text, a way to add notes, and an embedded dictionary that will define most words with a click or two.