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Walter learns a shocking secret about the past when reading his mother's diary, and sets out on a path of violence and evil that will change his life forever.

Lomasi, a Creek girl, enjoys singing and hearing stories from the village storyteller, and also likes to help her grandmother gather leaves, roots, and herbs for medicine, but one day her grandmother has an accident and Lomasi must decide what to do.

In the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee, portrayed the lives of three sharecropper families in the South during the Depression, documenting the tyranny of the tenant farming system that enslaved some nine million tenants in 1936. Fifty years later, Maharidge and Williamson have revisited, photographed, and interviewed the surviving members and descendants of the families shown in that book.

Examines the life and political career of four-time Alabama Governor George Wallace, and discusses the lasting influence of his conservative policies on twentieth-century politics.

Traces the history of this ancient trail used originally by Native Americans, describes its use by travelers returning north from New Orleans, and includes information about it as a national reserve.

With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.

In 1963, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins is intrigued by the diary of a young slave girl who had three illegitimate children with her master; and after she gives birth, Adie starts to wonder if her midwife is the daughter of the woman who wrote the journal.

Uses historical figures and fictional characters to trace the progression of the 1931 Scottsboro trial, during which nine black youths were accused of raping two white girls, and a series of figures from both sides of the case vied to either save the boys or condemn them to death.

Traces the career of Charles Hays, former slaveholder and confederate soldier, who embraced the Republican party and the rights of freedom.

Evelyn Couch, a woman caught in the slump of middle age, gains a new outlook on life when she befriends eighty-year-old Ninny Threadgood who tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe and the two women who ran it in the 1930s, best friends Idgie and Ruth.