1775-1865

Tells the story of the Virginia Colony from its founding to the Revolutionary War, and includes short excerpts from related documents, as well as contemporary maps and artwork.

In 1806, orphaned eleven-year-old Abigail and her little brother Seth find a home with the young Widow Chase in the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine, and help her discover a way to support them all.

During a yellow fever epidemic in 1803, Esther and Archibald Gracie move their family from Manhattan to their country home, where the children search for an underground passageway and a mysterious visitor to the mansion that would later be home to the mayors of New York City.

In the first of these stories from the Catskill Mountains, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman; in the second, a man sleeps for twenty years, waking to a much-changed world.

Presents a historical graphic novel about brothers Owen and Amos Bennington who vow to continue their parents' work to help runaway slaves; but each takes a different path--Owen campaigning for Abraham Lincoln, and Amos joining up with abolitionist John Brown.

Nineteenth-century town librarian Glynis Tryon, a veteran of a number of political crusades, becomes involved in battling discrimination against the Seneca Iroquois by white settlers, but when one of her Iroquois friends is accused of murder, the fight becomes personal.

Describes slavery in the United States, the harsh conditions under which slaves lived, the active and passive resistance with which they fought for their rights, the revolts, and the involvement of slaves in the Civil War.

Opal, having built her life around her troubled best friend Marianne, must find a way to go on alone after receiving the news that Marianne has died.

Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's house, secretly learning to read and write, until, risking everything, she escapes to seek freedom in the North.