Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.
profiles of sixteen educators, politicians and activists
Turkel, Stanley
2005
Presents biographical profiles of sixteen men and women, seven of them African-American, who struggled to uphold the ideals of Reconstruction, including Union Army general Samuel Chapman Armstrong, educator Charlotte Forten Grimke, and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Examines the divisions between North and South between 1860 and 1865 and discusses the institution of slavery, secession, major events of the Civil War, Reconstruction, assassination of President Lincoln, and important people of the period.
Chronicles Reconstruction and presents resources on the period including an overview, interpretive essay, photo essay, chronology, annotated bibliography, biographies, and primary documents.
"Chicago history of American civilization." Examines the reconstruction period and reduces the exaggerations of former views to a more credible picture.
Contains a selection of primary source documents that provides insight into the period of post-Civil War reconstruction in America, discussing the problems of freed slaves, carpetbaggers, the KKK, and other topics.
