Let freedom ring

A biography of Sam Houston, including his early life with the Cherokee Indians, his political career in Washington, D.C., and his role in the history of Texas.

Explains the events leading up to the formation of the Massachusetts 54th, a regiment of free African-Americans, and its participation in the Civil War, and includes sidebars with quotations from leaders of the time and facts about the soldiers.

Discusses the series of events that lead to the secession of the southern states from the Union and to the start of the Civil War in 1861.

A biography of the commander of the Union forces in the Civil War who became the eighteenth president of the United States.

Profiles the African American abolitionist from her childhood as a slave, through her freedom and change of name later in life, to her adult career as a speaker against slavery and supporter of women's rights.

A brief biography of the life and struggles of escaped slave and famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, that describes her courage and faith in helping hundreds of slaves to freedom.

A biograhy of the sixteenth president of the U.S., from his childhood through the Civil War and his assassination.