Examines Abraham Lincoln's attitudes toward slavery, focusing on his years as president when he worked on the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves, and on record: discussing his belief that the spread of slavery would destroy democracy.
Presents over seventy-five poems inspired by the American Civil War, including selections from Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Ward Howe, and many others.
Based on first-person accounts and illustrated with vintage photographs and drawings, this book reveals how black soldiers influenced the outcome of the Civil War and the decades that followed.
With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.
After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas, twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union army as musicians and see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.
Explores ways in which the various activities of women during the Civil War altered their role in society and led to new initiatives in women's rights.
The twelve-year-old son of a Union army doctor killed during the fighting in Fredericksburg comes to understand the meaning of war and the fine line between friends and enemies when he begins corresponding with a young Confederate prisoner of war.
