1865-1950

Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.

Presents a biography of the Louisiana governor, Huey P. Long, who made Louisiana the first state to furnish free text books for public schools.

Uses a collective biography approach to provide an account of the scalawags--white southerners who opposed secession in the Civil War era, and whose pro-Union stance led to their being appointed to political office in the federal government under the Reconstruction Acts.

Examines the conflict that took place in the South in the years following the end of the Civil War over the rights of African-Americans, recounting key events of that civil rights battle and profiling men and women who worked to promote those rights.

An account of the career of Huey Long, a Louisiana politician, and the events that followed his assassination in 1935.

In 1870, Tulip Jones, a wealthy, self-reliant widow from England, acquires the By-Golly Gully Ranch in Texas and soon finds herself saddled with 1000 suitors.

A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, covering the years 1858 to 1901, before he became the youngest President of the United States.

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